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Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:20:58 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: zia DOT sarkeshik AT freefire DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <0FC3173A97F9D1118E1E080009DC529602282B6D@newman.ima-inc.com>
	(message from Zia Sarkeshik on Mon, 22 May 2000 16:53:39 -0700)
Subject: Re: Cygwin library
References:  <0FC3173A97F9D1118E1E080009DC529602282B6D AT newman DOT ima-inc DOT com>


> We are planning to use and distribute The Cygwin API library in our
> software. Our software is free but we do not have an open source right now.
> We are planning to have open source for our product in near future (a few
> weeks). What are our options.

If your software is proprietary and built with cygwin, you must either
make your software non-proprietary (GPL or Open Source), or purchase a
proprietary-use license from Cygnus, before you may distribute
built-with-cygwin copies of your application.

> Could we use The Cygwin API library while we are working on the open
> source issues?

You can *use* cygwin for whatever you want.  The GPL requires that you
have that right.  It's *distribution* that the GPL restricts.

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