From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>, cygwin@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey)
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990308182348.A10539@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006a01be69b6$90433300$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com>; from Suhaib M. Siddiqi on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 05:54:03PM -0500
We're investigating this now.
I certainly am not aware of every one of our commercial customers so it
is possible that this company has purchased a commercial license from us.
If they haven't, perhaps they've bundled things in such as way as to avoid
the GPL requirement.
cgf
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 05:54:03PM -0500, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
>>>I don't think that is correct. I believe the "commercial compiler"
>>>that Suhaib M. Siddiqi is referring to may be the one known as the
>>>"Cygnus GNUPro Development Tools" ;-)
>>>
>>>If I understand things correctly, it *is* possible to get a license
>for
>>>Cygwin that allows you to link proprietry code which incorporates the
>>>Cygwin crt0 file --- you just need to fork over the appropriate amount
>of
>>>cash to Cygnus to pay for that license.
>>
>>That's right. As the license holder for cygwin we reserve the right to
>>distribute the code under a different licensing agreement.
>>
>>We do allow our customers to distribute code linked with the DLL under
>>other terms than the GPL -- for a fee.
>>
>>I don't believe that Suhaib is referring to our own products however,
>and
>>I don't believe that he is referring to a commercial customer of
>Cygnus.
>>
>>cgf
>
>
>Yes, I am refering to a commercial cuustomer (PGI) who officially
>distribute
>it as a bundeled product:
>
>here is a paragraph from their brochures. I do not accept ilega
>software and do not allow others to make illegal copies of my licensed
>software.
>
>Suhaib
>
>* PGHPF Workstation
> - Command-level F77 compiler
> - Command-level F90 compiler
> - Command-level HPF compiler
> - Supported on Linux/Solaris86/NT
> - Full HPF support for multi-processor (SMP) systems
> - Threads-based SMP auto-parallelization in F77/F90
> - Native directive-based OpenMP parallelization in F77/F90
> - SGI C$DOACROSS directive supported in F77/F90
> - Byte-swapping unformatted I/O (big-endian to little)
> - Executables utilize up to 4 processors
> - Cray/DEC/IBM compatibility (including Cray POINTERs)
> - PGPROF performance profiler (command-level only on NT)
> - PGDBG symbolic debugger (not yet available on NT)
> - UNIX-like command environment bundled on NT <---note
>this----------------
> - Node-locked single-user license
>
> PGHPF Workstation 1 Year Subscription
>
>
>
>
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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
Cc: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>, cygwin@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey)
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990308182348.A10539@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.sm8sY_YVIQE1D3EWTnJF4WbbEtz3_i__ads2RuShsm4@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <006a01be69b6$90433300$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com>
We're investigating this now.
I certainly am not aware of every one of our commercial customers so it
is possible that this company has purchased a commercial license from us.
If they haven't, perhaps they've bundled things in such as way as to avoid
the GPL requirement.
cgf
On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 05:54:03PM -0500, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
>>>I don't think that is correct. I believe the "commercial compiler"
>>>that Suhaib M. Siddiqi is referring to may be the one known as the
>>>"Cygnus GNUPro Development Tools" ;-)
>>>
>>>If I understand things correctly, it *is* possible to get a license
>for
>>>Cygwin that allows you to link proprietry code which incorporates the
>>>Cygwin crt0 file --- you just need to fork over the appropriate amount
>of
>>>cash to Cygnus to pay for that license.
>>
>>That's right. As the license holder for cygwin we reserve the right to
>>distribute the code under a different licensing agreement.
>>
>>We do allow our customers to distribute code linked with the DLL under
>>other terms than the GPL -- for a fee.
>>
>>I don't believe that Suhaib is referring to our own products however,
>and
>>I don't believe that he is referring to a commercial customer of
>Cygnus.
>>
>>cgf
>
>
>Yes, I am refering to a commercial cuustomer (PGI) who officially
>distribute
>it as a bundeled product:
>
>here is a paragraph from their brochures. I do not accept ilega
>software and do not allow others to make illegal copies of my licensed
>software.
>
>Suhaib
>
>* PGHPF Workstation
> - Command-level F77 compiler
> - Command-level F90 compiler
> - Command-level HPF compiler
> - Supported on Linux/Solaris86/NT
> - Full HPF support for multi-processor (SMP) systems
> - Threads-based SMP auto-parallelization in F77/F90
> - Native directive-based OpenMP parallelization in F77/F90
> - SGI C$DOACROSS directive supported in F77/F90
> - Byte-swapping unformatted I/O (big-endian to little)
> - Executables utilize up to 4 processors
> - Cray/DEC/IBM compatibility (including Cray POINTERs)
> - PGPROF performance profiler (command-level only on NT)
> - PGDBG symbolic debugger (not yet available on NT)
> - UNIX-like command environment bundled on NT <---note
>this----------------
> - Node-locked single-user license
>
> PGHPF Workstation 1 Year Subscription
>
>
>
>
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[not found] <006a01be69b6$90433300$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com>
1999-03-08 15:23 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-08 15:09 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
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1999-03-08 15:07 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 15:02 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 00a701be69ba$27d003d0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-08 15:06 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 14:50 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 14:39 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] ` < 008f01be69b6$f4fa6ed0$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-08 14:47 ` DJ Delorie
[not found] ` < 199903082247.RAA11818@envy.delorie.com >
1999-03-08 14:59 ` Henry J. Cobb
[not found] ` <199903082259.RAA18063@delorie.com>
1999-03-08 15:01 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 11:13 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] <001901be6909$0c8aaeb0$cd3b4ec6@hunda>
1999-03-08 7:45 ` Chris Faylor
[not found] ` < 19990308104616.E789@cygnus.com >
1999-03-08 11:03 ` Fergus Henderson, Fergus Henderson
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Fergus Henderson, Fergus Henderson
[not found] ` <19990309060114.17632@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
1999-03-08 11:08 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-07 18:18 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-09 17:39 ` Stipe Tolj
[not found] ` < 36E5C331.2C0B@uni-duesseldorf.de >
1999-03-09 17:47 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Stipe Tolj
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
[not found] <Pine.LNX.3.96.990307195915.12096C-100000@mail.perspex.com>
1999-03-07 18:06 ` Chris Faylor, Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Chris Faylor, Chris Faylor
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