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Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?)


From: Mike Gran
Subject: Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?)
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:33:02 -0700

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:25:07PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:
> Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Cygwin: use gcc or clang, link to a special C and POSIX library that 
> > handles the Windows API for you.
> > Its emulation library is GPL[ed]
> 
> Really?  I was under impression, that it is under a _weakened_ variant of 
> _Lesser_ GPL, i. e. its terms are even less restrictive that those of GNU 
> libc.
> 
> > so to distribute a Cygwin app, it must be GPL[-compatible]
> 
> After all, Cygwin itself (just like any other GNU distro) have always 
> distributed quite a few of GPL-incompatible software, so that statement does 
> not look plausible at all.

You are correct. I misread this page  https://cygwin.com/licensing.html

Apologies.

-Mike Gran


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