The motive isn't that sinister. We'll be deploying Cygwin's X Server to users and don't want the users to know whose X Server we're using. In fact, we're doing all we can to hide the fact that the application they're using is running through X. By changing the dll names we hope to make it a little harder for someone to determine we're using Cygwin's X Server so they don't get the source, and modify it in some malicious way.On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 03:58:39PM -0600, Mike Disbrow wrote: >I'd like to build the supporting Cygwin DLLs to be renamed to something >other than cyg*.dll (e.g. cygwin1.dll to foo.dll), what is the best >way to build the DLLs with different names?
May I ask why you want to do this? I can't think of any valid reason to rename the DLL which would not involve trying to mask the existence of Cygwin. And, I can't think of any reason for doing that which does not involve either bypassing Cygwin's GPL or trying to take credit for a DLL which you didn't develop.
- Mike
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