From: Darik Horn <dajhorn@vanadac.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: compile ncurses "hello world" to run independent of cygwin?
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2015 15:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPbcu1O=t3uEWJFnzELq0FvbekxcYaGt84B7-ON5q4vnqDFrEQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGpXXZKySmMk3tcHwW_hBnJT+9abzMA_SjRk4McF0PLwHHqjxA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.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
--
Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-02 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-02 3:04 Daniel Goldman
2015-11-02 4:09 ` Darik Horn
2015-11-02 12:48 ` cyg Simple
2015-11-02 15:14 ` Greg Freemyer
2015-11-02 15:34 ` Darik Horn [this message]
2015-11-02 15:49 ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-11-02 12:42 ` cyg Simple
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAPbcu1O=t3uEWJFnzELq0FvbekxcYaGt84B7-ON5q4vnqDFrEQ@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=dajhorn@vanadac.com \
--cc=cygwin@cygwin.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).