Re: About OfW <-> Cygwin Conflict

[Andy Adler]

 address@hidden wrote:

> I just found where the cygwin dll configures its registry values and it's easy to 
> change them. Using this modified version my octave for windows will be totally 
> stand-alone. The problem is that I don't know if this is legal.
>  
Cygwin is GNU GPL. The means that if you modify it, and then redistribute,
you need to make available the modified source.

By posting the modifications of cygwin source somewhere, and noting that
location in the executable package, you will be GPL compilant.

andy




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