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Re: Licensing fee for Cygwin 1.3.X
- From: ejfried at ca dot sandia dot gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
- To: Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:08:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Licensing fee for Cygwin 1.3.X
I think Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >
> > Could the Unix text commands
> > (e.g. grep, more, tail, etc) in Cygwin 1.3.x be
> > used without incurring additional licensing fees?
>
> Sorry for blaspheming, but there are native Windows ports of all these tools
> available, this would free you from the cygwin dll and is probably closer to
> what you are looking for if you just need a few tools. For example here:
>
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
>
Note that these are all GPL as well -- i.e., he'd still have to
distribute the source.
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