From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" To: "Fergus Henderson" , "cygwin" 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 Message-ID: <000701be699a$33666060$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00248.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.-eJff5JS2dZTtovhEg5hy5WWUnoY5CnRa9ANryFoeEU@z> From: Fergus Henderson ; Fergus Henderson To: Sent: Monday, March 08, 1999 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey) >On 08-Mar-1999, Chris Faylor wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 09:11:57PM -0500, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: >> >The crt0.o and cygwin1.dll comes with another commercial compiler too. >> >I do not think the GPL is valid there, to get that you need to pay first??? >> >> If someone is distributing code which incorporates our crt0 file then it >> *must* be GPLed. > >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" ;-) > Well, no it is not GNU Pro. It is PGI. They do redistribute the bundled cygwin.dll, I believe under a license agreement. PGi also recently signed a deal with Interix (formerly known as OpenNT) to make their compilers compatible with Interix. However to get PGI you pay a lesser amount of appropriate cash compare to GNU Pro. Beside, their compilers are known to be of high quality commercial compilers. You do not get ligcygwin.a. If you need that you will need to license GNU Pro from Cygnus. But you do get cygwin.dl and their version of dlltools. So the question is I am licensing cygwin.dll from another vendor, without libcygwin.a. This vendor supplies the dlltools too, should I be violating a GPL if I extract the export codes from cygwin.dll using the licensed cygwin.dll. I am just curious here. >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. > >-- >Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit >WWW: < http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh > | of excellence is a lethal habit" >PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. > >-- >Want to unsubscribe from this list? >Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com > > -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com