That seems to overstate it rather—it’s a generalisation, but it’s mostly true. Most software written for for-profit employers isn’t GPL, and is often distributed even if only to a client or to other employees, so can’t link to GPLed libraries directly. Still that’s a long way from saying you can’t use Cygwin at work. Sebastian Hagen’s comment seems accurate to me.
That’s a gross overgeneralization.
That seems to overstate it rather—it’s a generalisation, but it’s mostly true. Most software written for for-profit employers isn’t GPL, and is often distributed even if only to a client or to other employees, so can’t link to GPLed libraries directly. Still that’s a long way from saying you can’t use Cygwin at work. Sebastian Hagen’s comment seems accurate to me.
Distributing to fellow employees is still internal to the company, is it not? So that would not trigger the public source clause.