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From: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden
Subject: Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms
Date: 11 Jul 1997, 11:27:52
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Gordon Irlam wrote: > > The new licensing terms for Cygwin32 permits anyone to make use of Cygwin32 > without adhering to the GPL, and without being required to make their > sources available, provided that in so doing they are not attempting to > directly compete with Cygnus. The reason we decided it was necessary to > prevent the use of Cygwin32 by companies that are competing directly with > Cygnus is explained below. > > Cygnus specializes in the provision of development tools for embedded > systems. Cygnus is responsible for perhaps 80% of all on going GCC > development, and 95% of all GDB development. We commercialize our > development efforts through our GNUPro compiler tool chain. Other people and > organizations contribute to, and benefits from our work. > Translating into readable English, I read here: "You are not allowed to create competing development tools based on cygwin32" How does this affect other GNU compilers, like GNU Pascal and GNU Fortran? I created and maintain the (cygwin32 based) win32 port of GNU Pascal. We will surely try to convert the world to Pascal ;-) Will it violate the new license terms to use cygwin32? J.J. van der Heijden --- With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC1925.
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