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Re: Is it free to use

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:10:33AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>>This means that if you are developing software for eventual release, 
>>you must also make the source code available when you make binaries 
>>available.
>
>If I develop an app and do not wish to have a requirement to install 
>Cygwin I would use MingW, right?

If you do not link your app with a GPLed library and your app is not
GPLed itself, it does not become GPLed by the act of compiling either
on Cygwin or Linux or HP/UX or...

cgf

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