Unless of course you want to distribute the cygwin1.dll with your binary, which you may well want to do.
On 11 February 2011 16:10, Antony Vennard <antony.venn...@gmail.com> wrote: > From the cygwin website http://cygwin.com/licensing.html > > In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits programs whose > sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open > Source Definition [See http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd/ for the > precise Open Source Definition and a list of the licenses certified by > OSI as conforming to that definition] to be linked with > libcygwin.a/cygwin1.dll without libcygwin.a/cygwin1.dll itself causing > the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL. > > This means that you can port an Open Source application to Cygwin™, and > distribute that executable as if it didn't include a copy of > libcygwin.a/cygwin1.dll linked into it. Note that this does not apply to > the Cygwin™ DLL itself. If you distribute the Cygwin™ DLL, either in its > original form or in a form modified by you, you must adhere to the terms > of the GPL, i.e. you must provide sources for the Cygwin™ DLL unless you > have obtained a special Cygwin™ license to distribute the Cygwin™ DLL in > only its binary form (see below). > > Red Hat sells a special Cygwin™ License for customers who are unable to > provide their application in open source code form. For more > information, please see: http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/, or call > +1-866-2REDHAT ext. 45300 (toll-free in the US) > Outside the US call your regional Red Hat office. > > Perhaps the license has changed over time? it certainly appears to be ok > now to link bsd (or any of these: > http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical) code with cygwin1.dll > > Antony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "mpir-devel" group. > To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en.
