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So what do you do if you want to run Linux code on Windows, but you can't use the GPL? Cygwin (was/is) not an option in that case, so you just use MinGW. It's a

So what do you do if you want to run Linux code on Windows, but you can't use the GPL? Cygwin (was/is) not an option in that case, so you just use MinGW. It's a pain, but it gets the job done.

rwmj 10y ago
Not exactly sure what your point is. Cygwin is now LGPL, and the mingw-w64 libraries are all under their own free licenses which are (almost) all compatible with linking to proprietary programs. In Fedora we have both Cygwin and the Fedora cross-compiler project which packages mingw-w64 compiler and many many precompiled libraries. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW
- ktRolster 10y ago
  Not exactly sure what your point is. Cygwin is now LGPL My point was to hypothesize why Cygwin became openGPL. I stated some of the advantages of mingw, and why those might motivate Cygwin to change their licensing.
  - rwmj 10y ago
    What is "openGPL"? There is no such license. Cygwin is now under the GNU LGPL.
    - ktRolster 10y ago
      It's what I type when I'm not thinking very clearly. Do you have an actual point, or are you just going to continue harassing me over irrelevant things?