Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: From: Peter Ring To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: RE: proprietary-use license? Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:30:58 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" > What are the licensing requirements or charges for Cygwin/PostgreSQL? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You are asking for legal advice, please consider if you'd better ask a lawyer. Read http://cygwin.com/licensing.html. Read http://cygwin.com/COPYING. Depending on what you use and how you use it, you might be required to make the source of your application freely available. Red Hat sells a special Cygwin License for customers who are unable to provide their application in open source code form. For more information, please see: http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/, or call 866-2REDHAT ext. 3007. kind regards (and I'm not a lawyer ;)) Peter Ring -----Original Message----- From: Markus Hoenicka [mailto:Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu] Sent: 12. marts 2002 16:18 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: proprietary-use license? Richard, all programs that you mention (MySQL, Cygwin, PostgreSQL) are released under free licenses. You do not have to pay per-seat charges for any of these as long as you do not buy professional support. regards, Markus Richard Chrenko writes: > We are a small research institute developing a Java-based solar energy > simulation which will be marketed to the renewable energy community. Our > program requires multi-platform database functionality which is why > PostgreSQL (and MySQL) came to mind. We would like to avoid any per-seat > charges such as MySQL requires. What are the licensing requirements or > charges for Cygwin/PostgreSQL? -- Markus Hoenicka, PhD UT Houston Medical School Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology 6431 Fannin MSB4.114 Houston, TX 77030 (713) 500-6313, -7477 (713) 500-7444 (fax) Markus DOT Hoenicka AT uth DOT tmc DOT edu http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/