On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 09:29 +1000, Amos Shapira wrote:
> On 20/09/2007, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > cygwin is like Linux I have never had any problems getting things sorted
> > out, the community is very strong. We have plenty of Unix experts at my
> > company so I leveraged those skills as well.
> 
> 
> What about the licensing?
> 
> Our coders now use Cygwin to make shell scripts run on Windows and noticed
> that the API is GPL'ed (they just port shell scripts but for output
> redirection they had to write a small C program using the API).

Cygwin1.dll is GPL'd with an exception for any OSI approved FOSS
licence. If you distribute a binary it must be under an OSI approved
FOSS licence. There are proprietary versions of cygwin available from
redhat.

-Rob
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