> -----Original Message----- > From: Junichi Uekawa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: brain-dump > > > Hi, > > Two things I have had in my mind: > > o cygwin is GPL, and requires programs to be GPL-compatible, > which not > all of Debian is
False. Cygwin requires programs to be open-source, not necessarily GPL. openssh and X11 are two examples of non-GPL software ported using cygwin. > o How much effort is porting programs using mingw ? (we already have > a working mingw cross compiler) Much harder, as mingw doesn't offer posix support (it's not designed to). Rob
