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Marvin wrote:

> Is there any definitive way to view precisely what licenses Cygwin and it's packages are shipped under?

It's not universal, but many packages list the license in the
Cygwin-specific readme, i.e. /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/*.README.

Brian