- E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Robert Kern]

Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> Duncan Booth wrote:
> 
>> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
>>
>>>> There is a OS-tool-chain supported on windows, cygwin. 
>>>
>>>
>>> this depends on cygwin.dll, which is GPL licensed
>>>
>>> [or am I wrong?]
>>
>>
>> It is GPL licensed with an amendment which prevents the GPL spreading 
>> to other open source software with which it is linked.
>>
>> "In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat, Inc. permits 
>> programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies 
>> with the Open Source definition to be linked with libcygwin.a without 
>> libcygwin.a itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the 
>> GNU GPL."
> 
> 
> If I understand this right, I cannot produce commercial software with 
> the cygwin toolset.

Wait, you demand a completely open source toolchain on a proprietary 
operating system to develop proprietary software?

The mind *boggles*.

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Robert Kern
rkern at ucsd.edu

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