6/2/2018 Cygwin Licensing Terms

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IRC channels Most of the tools are covered by the GNU GPL, some are public domain, and others have a X11 style license.
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The Cygwin™ API library found in the winsup subdirectory of the source code is covered by the GNU Lesser
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GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
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Contributing Cygwin™ Linking Exception

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Source in Git As a special exception, the copyright holders of the Cygwin library grant you additional permission
Cygwin Packages to link libcygwin.a, crt0.o, and gcrt0.o with independent modules to produce an executable, and to
convey the resulting executable under terms of your choice, without any need to comply with the
Related Sites conditions of LGPLv3 section 4. An independent module is a module which is not itself based on the
Cygwin library.

Does Cygwin™ have an ECCN number?

No. Cygwin source and binary are made publicly available and free of charge to download so Cygwin is
provided under TSU/TSPA exemption. As a result, Cygwin does not require an ECCN number.

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