From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Running a cygwin application on Windows
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 10:49:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140816104904.GV28562@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877g28enhq.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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On Aug 16 12:29, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Fernando Gont writes:
> > My idea was to use cygwin, since I'm not much of a Windows programmer.
> > Is there any way to produce and ship an exe with the relevant libraries?
>
> If I understand correctly what you're trying to do, you need to obtain a
> commercial license from RedHat for doing so. Otherwise, if you ship
> binaries linked against cygwin1.dll you need to also include all sources
> (for Cygwin and your own application) with each such shipment.
You only need the buyout license if you want to provide binaries only.
But this is a GPL'ed project, so I assume there's no desire to create
binary-only packages.
> Alternatively, why don't you just package your application with cygport
> and offer it to be included with the distribution?
Yep!
Corinna
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Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-16 10:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-16 10:11 Fernando Gont
2014-08-16 10:29 ` Achim Gratz
2014-08-16 10:49 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
2014-08-16 12:59 ` Fernando Gont
2014-08-16 19:15 ` Michael DePaulo
2014-08-18 9:22 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-16 10:47 ` Corinna Vinschen
2014-08-16 12:59 ` Fernando Gont
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