Re: gEDA-user: Portable gEDA for Windows

[DJ Delorie <dj@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The key problem with Cygwin isn't cygwin1.dll, actually.  A small bit
of the Cygwin library gets linked statically into every Cygwin
application, and that code is GPL.  At least, it was last time I
checked.  However, Cygwin has an exception for distributing binaries
of open-source programs anyway:

   http://cygwin.com/licensing.html

DJGPP's runtime has some exceptions for DJGPP-built apps to avoid that
issue too.

Note that the "major components (compiler" text is in there because of
DJGPP :-)

> I would have to archive the source for the cygwin.dll if that ended
> up in the distributable binary?

Yes.


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