From: Earnie B. <ea...@us...> - 2012-11-16 16:56:18
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On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Muralidhara S wrote: > > Since this is a fork of cygwin, I presume most of the packages in MSYS are covered under GPL? Is that correct? > As far as the MSYS runtime which was what was forked from Cygwin, yes it is GPL. However there are libraries used by MSYS/Cygwin itself that are not GPL but combined with GPL become infected with GPL (I am thinking of newlib specifically but there are others). There are tools provided that use the runtime that may be under a different license than GPL, you have to look at each source package and you need to look at each source file to determine the license covering that source file. -- Earnie -- https://sites.google.com/site/earnieboyd |