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Re: Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms
- To: Gordon Irlam <gordoni at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms
- From: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden <janjaap at Wit381304 dot student dot utwente dot nl>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:27:52 +0100 (WET DST)
- cc: GNU-Win32 list <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, GPC list <gpc at hut dot fi>
- Reply-To: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden <J dot J dot vanderHeijden at student dot utwente dot nl>
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
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