From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23942 invoked by alias); 20 Dec 2006 16:43:14 -0000 Received: (qmail 20684 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Dec 2006 16:37:37 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:43:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Subject: Re: redhat does not answer ... Message-ID: <20061220163721.GW8345@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-licensing@cygwin.com References: <45895B81.9050101@capdata.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45895B81.9050101@capdata.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Mailing-List: contact cygwin-licensing-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-licensing-owner@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2006-q4/txt/msg00001.txt.bz2 Hi Emmanuel, On Dec 20 16:49, Emmanuel Torre wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get informations from RedHat about Cygwin licensing but > after many emails without response, I wonder if somebody in this list > could help me : This is most unfortunate. If you could send me the mail address you used to contact Red Hat (in PM to vinschen AT redhat DOT com, please), I will try to find out why you never got a reply. This shouldn't happen. > We redistribute Cygwin binaries (cygwin1.dll + some useful commands) as > a part of an application we deliver to clients. > According the GPL rules, as we _do not provide_ the source code of our > application, it may be required to pay something no ? It depends. There are two cases. The first case is, your application is a native Windows application which is not linked against the Cygwin DLL. The tools you provide are just tool which are Open Source anyway, and which are bundeled with your native application. If this is what you do, you just have to distribute the sources for the Cygwin DLL and the accompanying Open Source tools to your customers, but not the sources of your application. That's all. The second case is, your application itself is linked against the Cygwin DLL. The tools you provide are closed source tools which you created yourself. In this case, you must provide the source codes of your application to your customers under a license which is compatible with the GPL (see http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html). In this second case, if you're not able to provide your sources to your customers, as you told, you have to purchase a Cygwin buyout license. The license is a "per project" license with a fixed price. Please check which of the above cases matches your situation. If it's the second case, please feel free to contact me again in private email I will then forwarded your request to my manager. Hope that helps, Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat