Integrating Cygwin into ReactOS (UNIX services for ReactOS)?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-03-17 15:20, Dan Shelton via Cygwin wrote:
> Mad? idea:
> Would there be any objections if Cygwin would be integrated into
> ReactOS, and always shipped as part of ReactOS?

None, as long as the licenses are compatible:

	https://cygwin.com/licensing.html

	https://cygwin.com/COPYING

	https://cygwin.com/COPYING.LIB

and newlib is BSD:

	https://sourceware.org/newlib/

It looks like ReactOS is GPL-2/3.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1/3.or-later AND
  BSD-2-Clause-Views:

	https://github.com/reactos/reactos

	https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/COPYING

	https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/COPYING3

	https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/COPYING.LIB

	https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/COPYING3.LIB

	https://github.com/reactos/reactos/blob/master/COPYING.ARM

	https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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