- E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Ilias Lazaridis]

Duncan Booth wrote:
> Ilias Lazaridis wrote:
> 
> 
>>>"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.
> 
> Contrariwise. You can produce commercial software, and it doesn't have to 
> be GPL licensed. However if you want to distribute it (and much, possibly  
> most, commercial software is never distributed) you have to choose between 
> making it open-source, or buying a commercial license for cygwin. You do 
> realise that you can produce open-source software commercially?

I understand that I've possibly not expressed myself clear.

"proprietary software" should be the right term, right?

> If you want to make your program closed source then to distribute it you 
> have to pay for the cygwin license, which all seems pretty fair to me. You 
> have a problem with that?

yes.

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