From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2001-10-30T16:31:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23815] Re: Ruby's use of cygwin and commercial use!

In article <3BDBCDB6.7000901@hotmail.com>,
Sunil Hadap  <hadap@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am considering jumping into ruby. I plan to use ruby as embedded 
>language for potentially commercial software. I understood the Ruby's 
>license. However, for win32, I realized that it uses cygwin. How people 
>typically address licensing problem associated with cygwin. Do I have to 
>buy license for cygwin.dll and for each copy of it.

What is the licensing issue with cygwin?  As far as I can tell, cygwin is 
licensed under the GPL, but I could be wrong.  If it's GPL'd you wouldn't 
have to buy any license for the dll.  There is also minGW as well, which 
I believe is also under GPL.



Phil