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== Cygwin beyond OSDev ==
If you go beyond OS development, there are several caveats regarding Cygwin that make its approach of "POSIX on Windows" less than perfect. Some of these caveats are collected in the [[Cygwin Issues]] document. Two more refer to [[Licensing Issues]] when linking Windows applications using Cygwin:
* linking to the Cygwin DLL (POSIX API) makes your code fall under the GPL if distributed, and being dependent on the Cygwin DLL being present in a system;
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