From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: DJ Delorie To: G.Heiser@unsw.edu.au Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Cygwin license Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:04:00 -0000 Message-id: <199903151403.JAA05958@envy.delorie.com> In-reply-to: < 990315072308.3841@cse.unsw.edu.au > (gernot@cse.unsw.edu.au) References: <990315072308.3841@cse.unsw.edu.au> <990315072308.3841@cse.unsw.edu.au> X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00475.html > However, we can, of course, not relax Stanford's restrictions on > commercial use without their agreement (which seems unlikely). Hence we > fear that we might be technically in breach of your license if we link > SimOS against your library, even though we feel that we would be > adhering to the spirit of it. You could get a commercial license for cygwin, which would allow you to choose a more restrictive license for SimOS, but then not allow the resulting program to be used commercially. Have you considered djgpp, which has exceptions in its runtime license to allow for proprietary programs under some circumstances? -- 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: DJ Delorie To: G.Heiser@unsw.edu.au Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Cygwin license Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: <199903151403.JAA05958@envy.delorie.com> References: <990315072308.3841@cse.unsw.edu.au> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00475.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.l69qZQNjfcprhIHBfJj1b25k0e5rNlcXnMU2UCrvz84@z> > However, we can, of course, not relax Stanford's restrictions on > commercial use without their agreement (which seems unlikely). Hence we > fear that we might be technically in breach of your license if we link > SimOS against your library, even though we feel that we would be > adhering to the spirit of it. You could get a commercial license for cygwin, which would allow you to choose a more restrictive license for SimOS, but then not allow the resulting program to be used commercially. Have you considered djgpp, which has exceptions in its runtime license to allow for proprietary programs under some circumstances? -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com