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mintty

mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, MSYS2 and WSL, developed by Andy Koppe and Thomas Wolff. It is free software licensed under the GNU GPL version 3 or later with a bundling clause.

Licensing at a Glance

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  1. mintty is copyright 2008-23 Andy Koppe and 2015-23 Thomas Wolff and is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 or later, amended with a bundling clause to clarify ambiguous interpretation.[1]

  2. mintty is based on PuTTY version 0.60; bundled components carry their own licences, such as the MIT-licensed minibidi algorithm and the LGPLv3 Oxygen program icon.[2]

  3. mintty is the Cygwin Terminal and the terminal emulator for MSYS and MSYS2; it also works with WSL.[3]

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References

  1. mintty LICENSE · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  2. mintty LICENSE · github.com · retrieved 2026-09-27
  3. Mintty — Cygwin Terminal emulator · mintty.github.io · retrieved 2026-09-27
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