From:	marcus AT cathcart DOT sysc DOT pdx DOT edu (Marcus G. Daniels)
Subject:	Re: Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms
9 Jul 1997 21:53:43 -0700 :
Approved:	cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Distribution:	cygnus
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Original-To:	gordoni AT cygnus DOT com (Gordon Irlam)
Original-Cc:	abraham AT dina DOT kvl DOT dk (Per Abrahamsen), gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
In-Reply-To:	gordoni@cygnus.com's message of Wed, 9 Jul 1997 15:44:30 -0700 (PDT)
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>>>>> "GI" == Gordon Irlam <gordoni AT cygnus DOT com> writes:

GI> d) In addition, cygwin.dll essentially provides a Unix operating
GI> system emulation layer, and so it's use by a GPL'ed application is
GI> essentially no different than the use of any other operating
GI> system layer.  The fact that an O/S is not under the GPL does not
GI> prevent the O/S from being used by GPL'ed applications.

In the free software community, the question for contributors is
whether it makes sense to work on the cygwin32 Unix emulation code now
that it is no longer free software. When win32sup was GPLed,
that was easy to rationalize.

I'd suggest thinking very carefully about assigning copyright on
cygwin32 code to Cygnus.



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