From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2006-10-29T01:57:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Another nail in CygWin's coffin (attached)

On 10/28/06, Tom Pollard <tomp@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On Oct 27, 2006, at 5:43 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> > Austin is basically right -- *nobody* should use CygWin as a Windows
> > development platform/IDE/whatever.
> Actually, I think Cygwin is a pretty reasonable platform for porting
> Unix apps to Windows.  It made it possible for my company to use our
> Unix build system (make files and shell scripts) under Windows more
> or less directly, without any radical changes.

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.

-austin
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