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

["Kendall Bennett" <KendallB at scitechsoft dot com>]

Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:

> 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. 

Of course not; they only care about GNU systems and Win32 is not one 
of them.

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

Clear as a bell to me. But that is what I don't contribute.

Regards,

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