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Re: Concurrent versions of cygwin1.dll on one system


And, here, ladies and gentlemen, is the somewhat rarer form of the
cygwin/cygwin-apps confusion where a thread, started in cygwin@cygwin,
is moved to cygwin-apps rather than the other way around.

Are we having fun yet?

cgf

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 10:12:18AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
>>And roll your own "IvoWin".  (Remember, tho, cygwin is GPL; therefore 
>>IvoWin will be GPL and you must make the source code available to 
>>whomever you give the binary.  Ditto for your app - but that's already 
>>true for your app, since it currently links to cygwin itself) 
>
>The app can in fact comply with any OSI-approved open source license I 
>think, as of "note" on page http://cygwin.com/licensing.html
>
>Another easy method to distribute a program which uses cygwin is to 
>create an http or ftp directory with packages and setup.ini with binary 
>and sources for your project and simply let users install a "real" (even 
>if minimal) cygwin.
>This is IMHO the best way to go.
>
>-- 
>Lapo 'Raist' Luchini
>lapo@lapo.it (PGP & X.509 keys available)
>http://www.lapo.it (ICQ UIN: 529796)
>


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