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Re: Cygnus used in a Product ?


> Yes, you're wrong.

Good news!

> You don't need to ship source code unless your app is a "derivative work"
> of the DLL, and if it just uses that standard POSIX interfaces it won't be.

In other words, as long as I just use the Cygwin32 DLL(s) along with the
header files to compile and link my application, I can distribute my
application along with the Cygwin32 DLLs (plus maybe the sources for the
DLLs), but I am not forced to publish the sources for my application?

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