cygwin licensing question

MrPmghost . pmghost4@gmail.com
Thu Feb 27 10:48:00 GMT 2020


Hi,

Thanks for all your feedback regarding this license subject. We will follow
your advice and ask a lawyer specialist in the matter.

Pierre

Le mer. 26 févr. 2020 à 17:37, MrPmghost . <pmghost4@gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi,
>
>
>
> I am Pierre Meignen, software developer working for a belgium company.
>
> I have a question regarding cygwin and its use.
>
> Is it allowed/legal to integrate cygwin installer (2.11.1(0.329/5/3)) into
> the installer of an application that we plan to distribute commercially?
>
> I have checked the past cygwin posts but I did not see any clear answer to
> my question.
>
> I know how to handle source code in LGPL but I have difficulty to
> understand what I can do with cygwin (LGPL) but which also contains tools
> covered by the GNU GPL and so on.
>
>
>
> We have customized cygwin installer in order to install locally the
> necessary packages.
>
> Once in its execution, our application launches cygwin.bat and launch
> commands to upload embedded systems.
>
> We do not link towards cygwin.dll.
>
> We currently use the application internally but we plan to distribute it
> commerically in the future.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your support/feedback,
>
> BR,
>
> Pierre Meignen
>

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