From: dessex@widow.aracnet.net (David Essex) Subject: Commercial Licensing 28 Mar 1997 13:10:01 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970328133822.006a68d0.cygnus.gnu-win32@aracnet.net> References: <33392F1D.3A7@tid.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: dessex@aracnet.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.1 (32) Original-To: Original-Cc: Ian Lance Taylor In-Reply-To: <199703261608.LAA12305@sanguine.cygnus.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >BFD, gas, ld, the binutils, are all under the GPL >and always have been. Any contributions you or anybody chooses to >make will be made under the GPL, will require a copyright assignment >to the Free Software Foundation, and will be included in future >binutils net releases for anybody to use. > >The commercial licensing stuff applies only to the gnu win32 library >itself, which is copyrighted by Cygnus. It does not apply to the >binutils. Commercial licensing ? The cygnus gnu-win32 web page says that this is free software. If win32 library is part of gnu why do you need a commercial license ? Could some one expand on this ? David - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".