- E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Duncan Booth]

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."