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On 10/28/06, Austin Ziegler <halostatue / gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So. Is your company's product open source? Because if it isn't, and
> you're distributing it, you're violating the GNU GPL for Cygwin1.dll.
> In other words, if you're distributing your software on Windows with
> Cygwin, your software is now infected with the GNU GPL.


I think this is where we got off track.

Nowhere did anyone mention that they were using Cygwin as a development
toolchain to produce Windows software.  It was just stated that several
people here use it as a UNIX environment on Windows.

And, if you do compile software inside Cygwin, that isn't breaking the GPL,
because either the software you're compiling is either open source already
(likely) or its your code that you aren't distributing.


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