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Can closed source applications use UWIN?

April 26, 2017applications closed source uwin

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Can closed source applications use UWIN?

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The CPL license does not require you to make your source code available in order to use CPL software. The GPL license requires you to make source code available for any binaries that use GPL code. As long as you do not use any GPL code, you can use UWIN without making your source code available. • Why is UWIN split into packages? The primary reason for splitting into packages was to reduce the size for users that do not require everyting. For example, users that don’t do software development do not need the development package. Not everyone requires the X11, groff, or perl software either. The license for these add-on packages might differ depending on where the sofware has been derived from. In addition, once the base package is installed, the installation of other packages can use standard UNIX tools for installing these additional packages. • What is UWIN Base package? UWIN Base package consists of the UWIN runtime libraries, shells, utilities, daemons and services. It provides a vi