From: garp@opustel.com (Keith Gary Boyce ) Subject: B17 Concern 22 Dec 1996 22:37:49 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0.1, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Face: ^DH_.wR&WxVpl/6xSwb1zT".+d0hm%R>&bOD: y{? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Can someone comment on this response below I recently received.. Now I have no problem putting software under GPL (by choice) but I thought GPL was about freedom. Sounds to me like if I spent lots of time and effort writing a program to work with gnu-win32 and then decide that I want to sell it I can't. This is not freedom. Now if I write a program using visual basic I could sell as many copies as I would like. Does that mean that VB offers more freedom than gnu-win32? I'd hate to think so. Response: Also they have changed the license in beta17 so that *anything* built against there DLL *must* be under the GPL ... something which I certainly disagree with and it would make me not support their environment unless I had no other choice. Such is life in a world of religious zealots (the FSF). ------------------------------------- Name: Garry Boyce E-mail: garp@opustel.opustel.com (Garry Boyce) Date: 12/01/94 Time: 08:46:10 This message was sent by Chameleon ------------------------------------- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".