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From: Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>, Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU>
To: cygwin@sourceware.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: <19990309060329.52923@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.xxDai5YrBgpcPMojGKfz7U6GTBKJO0T8mbzecyKTlaI@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19990308104616.E789@cygnus.com>

On 08-Mar-1999, Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> 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" ;-) 

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.

-- 
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WWW: < http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh >  |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-31 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [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 [this message]
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
     [not found] <006a01be69b6$90433300$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com>
1999-03-08 15:23 ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-31 19:45   ` Chris Faylor
1999-03-08 15:09 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com >
1999-03-08 15:06   ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-08 14:50 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Suhaib M. Siddiqi
1999-03-08 14:39 Suhaib M. Siddiqi
     [not found] ` < 008f01be69b6$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
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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