Is it free to use

[Andrew DeFaria]

Brian Dessent wrote:

> The part that causes it to become GPL'd is the linking to cygwin1.dll, 
> not the fact that Cygwin's gcc is used. If you use Cygwin's gcc in 
> mingw mode then your program does not need cygwin1.dll and the program 
> may be released under any license you choose, assuming there are no 
> other GPL libraries to which you link. 

That was my assumption. The parts I was a little skeptical about was: 1) 
whether using mingw was also GPL and 2) whether I created an app that 
linked in another library that Cygwin provides.

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