RE: [FAQ Alert, ping JDF!] RE: How to make DLLs in cygwin for MSVC and BCB

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

----Original Message----
>From: Corinna Vinschen
>Sent: 22 June 2005 17:01

> On Jun 22 16:45, Dave Korn wrote:

>>   Note also that Cygwin is GPL'd software (as indeed are all other
>> Cygwin-based libraries).  That means that if your code links against the
>> cygwin dll (and if your program is calling functions from Cygwin, it
>> must, as a matter of fact, be linked against it), you must apply the GPL
>> to your source as well.  Of course, this only matters if you plan to
>> distribute your program in binary form.  For more information, see
>> http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html.  "
> 
> FWIW, I think the GPL hint should be the start of this paragraph.
> If that's ok with the reader, then he or she can read on.
> 
> 
> Corinna


  On second thoughts, you're almost certainly right; people's attention may
trail off and they may start skim-reading toward the end of an item, so it's
more likely that people would see it and actually take it in, if it's at the
start.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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