Proposed SIG: Windows MinGW cross-compiler SIG

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jul 7 22:43:21 UTC 2008


On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 03:53:14PM -0600, Brendan Conoboy wrote:
> Any particular reason to go with MinGW rather than Cygwin?  Is there  
> room for both in the SIG?

Cygwin has a licensing issue -- namely that it is GPL and so prevents
any proprietary development on top of our libraries.

This isn't necessarily a problem for the 'MinGW' SIG, but it is a bit
of a problem for libvirt.

Rich.

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