From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Fergus Henderson , Fergus Henderson 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 Message-ID: <19990309060329.52923@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <19990308104616.E789@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00246.html Message-ID: <19990331194500.xxDai5YrBgpcPMojGKfz7U6GTBKJO0T8mbzecyKTlaI@z> 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" ;-) 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