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Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?)
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Dmitry Alexandrov |
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Re: Licensing of Cygwin comatibility layer (was: No Guile on Windows?) |
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Fri, 24 Jul 2020 19:25:07 +0300 |
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Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Cygwin: use gcc or clang, link to a special C and POSIX library that handles
> the Windows API for you.
> Its emulation library is GPL[ed]
Really? I was under impression, that it is under a _weakened_ variant of
_Lesser_ GPL, i. e. its terms are even less restrictive that those of GNU libc.
> so to distribute a Cygwin app, it must be GPL[-compatible]
After all, Cygwin itself (just like any other GNU distro) have always
distributed quite a few of GPL-incompatible software, so that statement does
not look plausible at all.
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