Re: Gow, Cygwin alternative refers to GNU programs as open source UNIX tools

[Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)]

On 2020-10-27 07:43, Jean Louis wrote:
> On this page accessible with LibreJS turned on:
> https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
>
> There is useful tool Gow that runs GNU programs on Windows, quote:
>
> Gow - The lightweight alternative to Cygwin

There is a case to be made here that the project is GPL violating;
it's shipping compiled GNU programs without any clue as to how
the user can re-build that from scratch.

I see only compiled binaries in the Gow repo; I don't see any build
scripts or instructions how rebuild it from scratch: how the
binaries were obtained.

It seems to be shipping MSYS DLL's, so it appears to be a MinGW
derivative.