On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 12:32:17AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >Brian Dessent wrote: > >>The part that causes it to become GPL'd is the linking to cygwin1.dll, >>not the fact that Cygwin's gcc is used. If you use Cygwin's gcc in >>mingw mode then your program does not need cygwin1.dll and the program >>may be released under any license you choose, assuming there are no >>other GPL libraries to which you link. > >That was my assumption. The parts I was a little skeptical about was: 1) >whether using mingw was also GPL
In that case you should be checking with the mingw web page. I also have to wonder how, as a long time reader of this list, you could *possibly* have missed the tedious discussion on this point that crops up on an almost weekly basis. cgf (Now someone will follow up with a clarifying thread saying something like: "Good point but what cgf meant by "weekly basis" is that people talk about this every seven days." ) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
