- E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[? the Platypus {aka David Formosa}]

Ilias Lazaridis <ilias at lazaridis.com> writes:

> Duncan Booth wrote:
[...]

> > 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.

You cannot produce proprietary software with that toolset.

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