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Re: License


Giulio Ardoino schrieb:
Corinna Vinschen wrote:
If you distribute a Cygwin DLL binary, you must also provide the sources
of the DLL.  It's not enough to point to the Cygwin web page.  For further
details, see http://cygwin.com/licensing.html

Thanks a lot Corinna. This means I'm allowed to distribute cygwin dll as long as I distribute it with sources, as I understand. Let's say I'm writing a commercial program that uses GNU zip under windows (and therefore must be distributed with cygwin dll), am I allowed to do this as long as I include cygwin and zip sources?

There's no such "GNU zip" thing. There's only a GNU gzip thing. zip is infozip and has a much more liberal license than GPL. And there exist native win32 versions for that.

The rest is correct, and it is very easy to provide just a link
to cygwin setup.exe.

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