From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" Cc: Fergus Henderson , 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 Message-ID: <19990308182348.A10539@cygnus.com> References: <006a01be69b6$90433300$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00271.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.sm8sY_YVIQE1D3EWTnJF4WbbEtz3_i__ads2RuShsm4@z> We're investigating this now. I certainly am not aware of every one of our commercial customers so it is possible that this company has purchased a commercial license from us. If they haven't, perhaps they've bundled things in such as way as to avoid the GPL requirement. cgf On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 05:54:03PM -0500, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote: >>>I don't think that is correct. I believe the "commercial compiler" >>>that Suhaib M. Siddiqi is referring to may be the one known as the >>>"Cygnus GNUPro Development Tools" ;-) >>> >>>If I understand things correctly, it *is* possible to get a license >for >>>Cygwin that allows you to link proprietry code which incorporates the >>>Cygwin crt0 file --- you just need to fork over the appropriate amount >of >>>cash to Cygnus to pay for that license. >> >>That's right. As the license holder for cygwin we reserve the right to >>distribute the code under a different licensing agreement. >> >>We do allow our customers to distribute code linked with the DLL under >>other terms than the GPL -- for a fee. >> >>I don't believe that Suhaib is referring to our own products however, >and >>I don't believe that he is referring to a commercial customer of >Cygnus. >> >>cgf > > >Yes, I am refering to a commercial cuustomer (PGI) who officially >distribute >it as a bundeled product: > >here is a paragraph from their brochures. I do not accept ilega >software and do not allow others to make illegal copies of my licensed >software. > >Suhaib > >* PGHPF Workstation > - Command-level F77 compiler > - Command-level F90 compiler > - Command-level HPF compiler > - Supported on Linux/Solaris86/NT > - Full HPF support for multi-processor (SMP) systems > - Threads-based SMP auto-parallelization in F77/F90 > - Native directive-based OpenMP parallelization in F77/F90 > - SGI C$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 > > > > -- cgf@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com