Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:09:07 -0500 From: Chris Faylor To: Fergus Henderson Cc: cygwin@cygnus.com Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey) Message-ID: <19990308140907.A3892@cygnus.com> References: <001901be6909$0c8aaeb0$cd3b4ec6@hunda> <19990308104616.E789@cygnus.com> <19990309060114.17632@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <19990309060114.17632@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>; from Fergus Henderson on Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 06:01:14AM +1100 On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 06:01:14AM +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote: >On 08-Mar-1999, Chris Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 09:11:57PM -0500, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: >> >The crt0.o and cygwin1.dll comes with another commercial compiler too. >> >I do not think the GPL is valid there, to get that you need to pay first??? >> >> If someone is distributing code which incorporates our crt0 file then it >> *must* be GPLed. > >I don't think that is correct. I believe the "commercial compiler" >that Suhaib M. Siddiqi is referring to may be the one known as the >"Cygnus GNUPro Development Tools" ;-) > >If I understand things correctly, it *is* possible to get a license for >Cygwin that allows you to link proprietry code which incorporates the >Cygwin crt0 file --- you just need to fork over the appropriate amount of >cash to Cygnus to pay for that license. That's right. As the license holder for cygwin we reserve the right to distribute the code under a different licensing agreement. We do allow our customers to distribute code linked with the DLL under other terms than the GPL -- for a fee. I don't believe that Suhaib is referring to our own products however, and I don't believe that he is referring to a commercial customer of Cygnus. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com