From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16343 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2006 10:02:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 13905 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Mar 2006 09:55:07 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:02:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Licensing/Installer Questions Message-ID: <20060301095501.GK3184@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com References: <3816256.1141199172470.JavaMail.chartpacs@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3816256.1141199172470.JavaMail.chartpacs@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-licensing-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-licensing-owner@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-q1/txt/msg00008.txt.bz2 On Mar 1 02:46, Michael Banks wrote: > Hello, > > Our company has released a commercial product for the medical industry > called SpongePACS ( http://www.spongepacs.com ). It was developed in a > database program called FileMaker Pro, which has the ability to access > the command line. In fact, SpongePACS relies heavily on utilities like > grep and find, which come with a standard installation of Mac OS X. > > Since we want to also target the larger Windows user base, we need to > find Windows equivalents, and Cygwin has worked fine in our testing, > but I have a couple of questions: > > 1) Licensing. I've read the licensing pages, but I'm still confused. > We're not porting a Unix/Linux application to Windows. All we need are > a dozen or so packages (mainly from the Base category, plus a few > others). Do we still need to purchase a special Cygwin license from > Red Hat? The Cygwin buy-out license covers the case in which a proprietary application is linked against Cygwin and should stay proprietary. In this case you have to purchase the license. If your closed-source applications are not linked against Cygwin, or if you decide to convert the license of your product to a blessed open- source license, then you don't have to purchase the Cygwin buy-out license. If Cygwin is only used for open-source tools which are packed with your applications, then that's fine. But see below. > 2) Installer. As I mentioned before, SpongePACS is a product for the > medical industry. Believe it or not, many doctors' offices do *not* > have an Internet connection, so can we bundle a Cygwin installer that > just has the needed packages, and include this installer on a CD with > our product? Whatever you do, please keep in mind that you have to provide the full sources of Cygwin and all accompaning open-source tools. If you fail to give your customers the source codes, you're infringing the license. HTH, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat