From: jra AT cygnus DOT com (Jeremy Allison) Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97 10 Feb 1997 23:51:06 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702110152.RAA27432.cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com> Original-To: Keith Gary Boyce Original-cc: Sergey Okhapkin , gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, jra AT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 10 Feb 1997 08:15:41 EST." Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Note : I'm not a Cygnus spokesperson, just a developer who works there on Cygwin32 (amongst other things). Keith Gary Boyce wrote : >Will someone from cygnus define commercial. Does that mean if you say >something like "If you like send $x to y" that's fine and you don't need a >licence. And if you produce binarys and say something like this does that >mean you are also obligated to share source code for free. As far as I can see 'Commercial' means charging money for the software you ship. If you ship software with an invoice to your customers then that's commercial use and you would need to either : (1). Buy a license from Cygnus for Cygwin32 so that you can ship the Cygwin32 code not under the GPL. or : (2). Your software comes under the terms of the GPL. ie. You need to offer source to your customers who then have all the freedoms that the GPL gives them. Note that this explicitly allows anyone working on GPL software to continue using Cygwin32 without needing any license from Cygnus. We are, of course, continuing to develop Cygwin32 - the aim is as close to POSIX as Win32 will allow :-). Hope that helps, Jeremy Allison jra AT cygnus DOT com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".