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RE: brain-dump: msg#00002
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junichi Uekawa [mailto:dancer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:36 AM
> To: debian-win32@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: brain-dump
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Two things I have had in my mind:
>
> o cygwin is GPL, and requires programs to be GPL-compatible,
> which not
> all of Debian is
False. Cygwin requires programs to be open-source, not necessarily GPL.
openssh and X11 are two examples of non-GPL software ported using
cygwin.
> o How much effort is porting programs using mingw ? (we already have
> a working mingw cross compiler)
Much harder, as mingw doesn't offer posix support (it's not designed
to).
Rob
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