From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Bernard Dautrevaux" , "'DJ Delorie'" , "Christopher G. Faylor" Cc: "cygwin" Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:24:00 -0000 Message-id: <004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02/msg00837.html >I wonder if that was not precisely the reason of the lack of >contributors to cygwin. Let make a supposition: suppose Linus had put on >the Linux kernel (the equivalent to cygwin.dll) a copyright saying that >*any* program run under Linux *must* be distributed in source form under >the GPL... Does the GPL applies to GNUPro, which is distributed for commercial use? >I'm quite sure Linux would *not* have been as successful as >it is, would had *a lot* less contributors, and would certainly *not* be >promoted now by little guys like Compaq and HP... > >I would like to use cygwin, and I would certainly contribute to cygwin >(helping to solve the problems that bother me in it), but I'm not *able* >to use it (I *have* to restrain to mingw32) because I have to live from >my work and thus I have to sell my software. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Bernard Dautrevaux" , "'DJ Delorie'" , "Christopher G. Faylor" Cc: "cygwin" Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 23:02:00 -0000 Message-ID: <004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-02n/msg00837.html Message-ID: <19990228230200.--HPlsik2mq183Y1vCnRzsKQuf0Q62p1-DxM9mk4XXo@z> >I wonder if that was not precisely the reason of the lack of >contributors to cygwin. Let make a supposition: suppose Linus had put on >the Linux kernel (the equivalent to cygwin.dll) a copyright saying that >*any* program run under Linux *must* be distributed in source form under >the GPL... Does the GPL applies to GNUPro, which is distributed for commercial use? >I'm quite sure Linux would *not* have been as successful as >it is, would had *a lot* less contributors, and would certainly *not* be >promoted now by little guys like Compaq and HP... > >I would like to use cygwin, and I would certainly contribute to cygwin >(helping to solve the problems that bother me in it), but I'm not *able* >to use it (I *have* to restrain to mingw32) because I have to live from >my work and thus I have to sell my software. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com