Things you can do with Cygwin

[Norman Vine]

>> Actually, I think it's even a bit less restrictive than that.  I
>> believe that you can sell an application that depends on CygWin,
>> even as a closed-source proprietary program.
>
>No, this is just plain wrong.  When you build an application with
>cygwin, part of cygwin itself is statically linked into the
>application.  The application is GPL at that point.
>

I find this discussion very interesting and I hope others do not 
find it a waste of bandwidth.

I would venture that legally you could link against a propriatary
DLL that you distributed separately ( and perhaps sold )
and still use Cygwin for the rest of the application.

Norman Vine

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