Cygwin & Microsoft's EULA, was: Re: Dispelling BSD License Misconceptions (fwd)

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:11 AM, Dalibor Topic wrote:
[ ...about Cygwin dynamically linking against Win32 DLL's... ]
> Microsoft's Visual Studio EULA is not particularly relevant for  
> Cygwin, since it
> uses gcc to build, rather than Visual Studio.

It doesn't matter which compiler the Cygwin folks use; Cygwin's  
setup.exe dynamically links against:

> <dependency>
>     <dependentAssembly>
>         <assemblyIdentity
>             type="win32"
>             name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
>             version="6.0.0.0"
>             processorArchitecture="X86"
>             publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
>             language="*"
>         />
>     </dependentAssembly>
> </dependency>
> </assembly>
> KERNEL32.DLL
> ADVAPI32.DLL
> COMCTL32.DLL
> GDI32.dll
> msvcrt.dll
> OLE32.dll
> SHELL32.DLL
> USER32.dll
> WSOCK32.DLL

See that "msvcrt.dll"?  That's the Microsoft Visual C runtime....

-- 
-Chuck