From: xavier DOT llamas AT citicorp DOT com (Xavier Llamas) Subject: Re: Availability of CYGWIN 28 Jan 1997 17:41:12 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199701290000.AA01271.cygnus.gnu-win32@egate.citicorp.com> References: <199701232133 DOT NAA03491 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com> <199701240923 DOT KAA22668 AT mamba DOT csd DOT uu DOT se> Reply-To: xavier DOT llamas AT citicorp DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Anders Lindgren wrote: > > Hi! > > Geoffery Noer wrote: > > We plan to always make it freely available under the terms of the GPL. > > Have you ever considered to release the CygWin library under the GNU > _Library_ General Public License (The LGPL) while keeping all the > tools under the GPL? (*) > > In my opinion, this is the logical choice since it would ensure the > CynWin system would be free, at the same time as anybody could be able > to use the development tools to produce real (even commercial) > programs. > > As the situation is today, to people outside Cygnus, the CygWin tools > are only of interest when they have no ambition what-so-ever to write > a commercial program. In other words, it's a cool _toy_. > > In fact, in the UNIX environment, GCC (and all other GNU tools) are > covered by the GPL, while the standard C library (roughly corresponding > to cynwin.dll) is covered by the LGPL. > > (*) The GNU Library GPL is similar to the normal GPL. The only main > difference is that a library that is covered by the LGPL could be used > in any project (even commercial), if it is possible for the user up > upgrade the library. > I adhere to this view. Under the current license terms I won't be able to use CygWin for my project :( Xavier. - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".