Binary distribution and DLLs

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Nov 2 12:38:00 GMT 2009


On Oct 31 15:08, Jon Beniston wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I want to distribute a binary build of some software that I have written,
> part of which includes some programs that are linked with cygwin1.dll and
> other Cygwin dlls such as cygexpat-1.dll, cyggmp-3.dll, cygintl-8.dll and so
> on. 

Binary distribution?  You are aware that linking an application against
the Cygwin DLL requires to put your application under a compatible Open
Source license, aren't you?  See http://cygwin.com/license.html


Corinna

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