Can I build a proprietary application which linked against to cygwin1.dll?

Question

Cygwin licensing terms said that

"In accordance with section 10 of the GPL, Red Hat permits programs whose sources are distributed under a license that complies with the Open Source Definition [See http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd/ for the precise Open Source Definition and a list of the licenses certified by OSI as conforming to that definition] to be linked with libcygwin.a/cygwin1.dll without libcygwin.a/cygwin1.dll itself causing the resulting program to be covered by the GNU GPL."

So, does that mean my application can be a proprietary license? For example, I uses cygwin to build an LGPL or BSD license library. Then I use the library to build my own application by using Cygwin GCC compiler. So, can I commercialize my application? Though my application compiled with Cygwin, but do not linked to cygwin.dll. However the library I used linked to cygwin.dll, what is the licensing effect?

Answer 1

there shouldn't be any real problem. last I recall, programs linked to gpl libs aren't actually under the gpl automatically.