RE: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?

["Michael D. Crawford" <crawford at goingware dot com>]

Another issue is the number of clients served by a windows host running cygwin. 
  I remember that was an issue for O'Reilly for the web server they used to sell 
for Windows - non-server versions of Windows were only licensed to serve a few 
clients of any sort, and server versions of windows that could have any number 
of users came bundled with IIS, so O'Reilly was unable to sell to people who 
already had a bundled web server.

If somebody's running cygwin on a machine that's only licensed as a desktop 
version of windows, and they have a lot of clients for apache, postgresql, ssh 
or whatnot, they're likely in violation of the windows license.

I couldn't say whether the cygwin developers could be held liable by microsoft 
for not enforcing the desktop client limit.

Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
http://www.goingware.com/
crawford@goingware.com

     Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.


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