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Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...
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- Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...
- From: Chris Faylor <cgf at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 18:49:50 -0400
- References: <390CB60E.77861554@gingerspice.demon.co.uk> <200005011535256.SM00160@KENDALLB>
- Reply-To: cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
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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