re: Licensing Question

Alan Hardy wrote:
 > I apologize for what will be a question coming from a limited 
technical understanding. MSYS is used to build a makefile and contains 
binaries of programs I assume are under various licenses, some may be 
GPL, but I haven't reviewed them yet. What I wanted to know is if any of 
these software components of MSYS are transferred/copied into the 
resultant makefile and then into the resultant end program? If I 
understand makefiles correctly, the answer is no, but Id rather ask.

No.  MSYS does not create Makefiles for you.  It is merely a shell 
environment where a Make program, such as GNU Make, can be successfully 
run.  GNU Make is GPLed, but it merely executes the Makefile that *you* 
provide.  It doesn't put anything into it.  Ergo, there are no legal 
risks from using Makefiles, whether with GNU Make or MSYS.  A Makefile 
is your own "code" and doesn't link to any other code, it is merely 
interpreted by a Make program in an environment such as MSYS.

Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
I won't spend more than 1 day configuring 1 thing.

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