Hi, Thanks for all your feedback regarding this license subject. We will follow your advice and ask a lawyer specialist in the matter.
Pierre Le mer. 26 févr. 2020 à 17:37, MrPmghost . <pmgho...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Hi, > > > > I am Pierre Meignen, software developer working for a belgium company. > > I have a question regarding cygwin and its use. > > Is it allowed/legal to integrate cygwin installer (2.11.1(0.329/5/3)) into > the installer of an application that we plan to distribute commercially? > > I have checked the past cygwin posts but I did not see any clear answer to > my question. > > I know how to handle source code in LGPL but I have difficulty to > understand what I can do with cygwin (LGPL) but which also contains tools > covered by the GNU GPL and so on. > > > > We have customized cygwin installer in order to install locally the > necessary packages. > > Once in its execution, our application launches cygwin.bat and launch > commands to upload embedded systems. > > We do not link towards cygwin.dll. > > We currently use the application internally but we plan to distribute it > commerically in the future. > > > > Thanks in advance for your support/feedback, > > BR, > > Pierre Meignen > -- 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