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Subject: Re: compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg DOT freemyer AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> The last time I checked (a few years ago), my understanding was the
> cygwin dll's were licensed such that any programs using them had to be
> GPL (or equivalent).
>
> Is that wrong?

No, that is still the case:

* https://cygwin.com/licensing.html


> If so, anyone wanting to write a commercial tool has to avoid the
> cygwin's core dll's.

Or buy a license.


> Does using mingw do so?

No, it is easier to avoid GPL obligations by using the MinGW runtime:

* http://www.mingw.org/license

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