- E02 - Support for MinGW Open Source Compiler

[Ilias Lazaridis]

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.

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