[LLVMdev] Building with Microsoft Visual Studio

Erik de Castro Lopo mle+cl at mega-nerd.com
Thu Sep 20 14:20:12 PDT 2007


S3 wrote:

> I am not a lawyer, but:

Nor am I.

> I think that you are misinterpreting the GPL.
> Just because Cygwin contains some GPL software
> does not automatically make all software it
> compiles GPL.

Don't guess, read the FAQ:

    http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.what.free
    http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/faq/faq-nochunks.html#faq.programming.static-linking

Erik
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