RE: brain-dump

"Robert Collins" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:42:02 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.windows
Message-ID <FC169E059D1A0442A04C40F86D9BA760014C43@itdomain003.itdomain.net.au>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Junichi Uekawa [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 11:36 AM
> To: [email protected]
> 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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