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Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...


On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 03:33:22PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
>Ian Miller <ian@gingerspice.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>>Ok, I'm an idiot and didn't read the bit about the assignment
>>form. Sorry! 
>>
>>http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/contrib.html
>
>So now ask yourself this question: Why does Cygnus require you to 
>assign copyright to them and not the FSF?? So they can sell 
>commercial licensed versions of all code contributed to the Cygwin 
>core library.

That's absolutely right.  We own Cygwin.  The FSF, as I understand it,
was actually not interested in the product.

Was this somehow unclear?  I don't see how it could have been.

cgf

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