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Re: Licensing Terms
- To: mvoss at kuttig dot com
- Subject: Re: Licensing Terms
- From: Mumit Khan <khan at xraylith dot wisc dot edu>
- Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 15:54:00 -0600
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
mvoss@kuttig.com writes:
>
> Does that also apply to software built with EGCS-1.1-MinGW32 ???
> If so, WHAT do I have to buy, and what share does Mumit Khan get of that
> money (he made the MinGW324EGCS package, after all)?
No, it does not apply to software built with EGCS-1.1-Mingw. Cygwin and
Mingw are completely independent as far as copyrights and licensing issues
are concerned.
Mingw itself (runtime and the include files etc) explicitly not
copyrighted (by Colin Peters or by anybody else). The egcs-1.1 components
have various different copyrights/licenses, and it's the same as on any
Unix system.
> Can I SELL the software built with either Cygwin or EGCS if I include the
> source code?
You can do anything you want with Mingw/egcs built software. As for
software built with Cygwin EGCS, you can always SELL the software as
long as you comply with the license that comes with Cygwin.
Regards,
Mumit
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