> the last time i've checked i saw the cygwin dll
> on SFU (iirc) and it has the GPL license.
I don't see any cygwin.dll on SFU. Though i see
cygwin.{pl|sh|pm|pod}. I can't install SFU on my
desktop winXP home ... so i'm deducing that
cygwin on SFU is probably related to perl.
SFU was not derived from cygwin. This guy
explains it much better below:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92838&cid=7976423
"There's a more important architectual difference.
Cygwin is built on top of the Win32 APIs on top
of the NT kernel core.
SFU is built straight on top of the core kernel;
Win32 API variances (which have caused headaches
for the Cygwin implementors of years) are no
longer factored in.
Moreover, the core state information (such as
process listings and various other things) come
straight from the core. It is perfectly possible
to send a SIGSTOP or a SIGKILL to Word.exe (a
Win32 app) from the SFU universe and watch Word
stop dead or die, respectively.
As well as NFS mounting and export capabilities,
SFU also supports NIS and can do various user
mappings between the Windows and Unix worlds."
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