* Cygwin licencing
@ 1999-08-25 6:31 Chris Telting
1999-08-25 9:08 ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Chris Telting
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From: Chris Telting @ 1999-08-25 6:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cygwin Mailing List
I was reading an old thread in the archive and I'm a bit confused now about
the cygwin unix library licencing. I thought it was freely usable. But
then I read this in the faq:
<QUOTE>
In particular, if you intend to port a commercial (non-GPL'd) application
using Cygwin, you will need the commercial license to Cygwin that comes
with the supported native Win32 GNUPro product. The commercial license for
the Cygwin library is included in a GNUPro Toolkit subsciption. Pricing for
GNUPro Subscription starts at $6000 for three developers and includes GNUPro
Toolkit, Developer Support, and a commercial-use license for 100 copies of
the cygwin library.
</QUOTE>
I understand the library is GPL'd and not LGPL'd but if it's GPL how can
they can cygnus can be commercial licencers if there is code from other
contributers? The library is a dll and as such it's dynamicly linked. Can
anyone clarify this?
BlueCoder
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* Re: Cygwin licencing
1999-08-25 6:31 Cygwin licencing Chris Telting
@ 1999-08-25 9:08 ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Chris Faylor
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Chris Telting
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From: Chris Faylor @ 1999-08-25 9:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Telting; +Cc: Cygwin Mailing List
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:32:27AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote:
>I was reading an old thread in the archive and I'm a bit confused now about
>the cygwin unix library licencing. I thought it was freely usable. But
>then I read this in the faq:
>
><QUOTE>
>In particular, if you intend to port a commercial (non-GPL'd) application
>using Cygwin, you will need the commercial license to Cygwin that comes
>with the supported native Win32 GNUPro product. The commercial license for
>the Cygwin library is included in a GNUPro Toolkit subsciption. Pricing for
>GNUPro Subscription starts at $6000 for three developers and includes GNUPro
>Toolkit, Developer Support, and a commercial-use license for 100 copies of
>the cygwin library.
></QUOTE>
>
>I understand the library is GPL'd and not LGPL'd but if it's GPL how can
>they can cygnus can be commercial licencers if there is code from other
>contributers? The library is a dll and as such it's dynamicly linked. Can
>anyone clarify this?
We own 100% of the source code for the cygwin DLL. That means that we
can relicense it as we please.
Net releases are licensed under the GPL. Our commercial customers get
a different license and are able to release the cygwin DLL without source
code.
If you have further questions about cygwin licensing, send mail to
info@cygnus.com.
Now, as Earnie suggested, it's best that this be discussed somewhere else
besides this mailing list.
-chris
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* Re: Cygwin licencing
1999-08-25 9:08 ` Chris Faylor
@ 1999-08-31 23:49 ` Chris Faylor
0 siblings, 0 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Chris Faylor @ 1999-08-31 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Telting; +Cc: Cygwin Mailing List
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:32:27AM -0700, Chris Telting wrote:
>I was reading an old thread in the archive and I'm a bit confused now about
>the cygwin unix library licencing. I thought it was freely usable. But
>then I read this in the faq:
>
><QUOTE>
>In particular, if you intend to port a commercial (non-GPL'd) application
>using Cygwin, you will need the commercial license to Cygwin that comes
>with the supported native Win32 GNUPro product. The commercial license for
>the Cygwin library is included in a GNUPro Toolkit subsciption. Pricing for
>GNUPro Subscription starts at $6000 for three developers and includes GNUPro
>Toolkit, Developer Support, and a commercial-use license for 100 copies of
>the cygwin library.
></QUOTE>
>
>I understand the library is GPL'd and not LGPL'd but if it's GPL how can
>they can cygnus can be commercial licencers if there is code from other
>contributers? The library is a dll and as such it's dynamicly linked. Can
>anyone clarify this?
We own 100% of the source code for the cygwin DLL. That means that we
can relicense it as we please.
Net releases are licensed under the GPL. Our commercial customers get
a different license and are able to release the cygwin DLL without source
code.
If you have further questions about cygwin licensing, send mail to
info@cygnus.com.
Now, as Earnie suggested, it's best that this be discussed somewhere else
besides this mailing list.
-chris
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* Cygwin licencing
1999-08-25 6:31 Cygwin licencing Chris Telting
1999-08-25 9:08 ` Chris Faylor
@ 1999-08-31 23:49 ` Chris Telting
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From: Chris Telting @ 1999-08-31 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Cygwin Mailing List
I was reading an old thread in the archive and I'm a bit confused now about
the cygwin unix library licencing. I thought it was freely usable. But
then I read this in the faq:
<QUOTE>
In particular, if you intend to port a commercial (non-GPL'd) application
using Cygwin, you will need the commercial license to Cygwin that comes
with the supported native Win32 GNUPro product. The commercial license for
the Cygwin library is included in a GNUPro Toolkit subsciption. Pricing for
GNUPro Subscription starts at $6000 for three developers and includes GNUPro
Toolkit, Developer Support, and a commercial-use license for 100 copies of
the cygwin library.
</QUOTE>
I understand the library is GPL'd and not LGPL'd but if it's GPL how can
they can cygnus can be commercial licencers if there is code from other
contributers? The library is a dll and as such it's dynamicly linked. Can
anyone clarify this?
BlueCoder
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* Re: Cygwin licencing
@ 1999-08-25 6:48 Earnie Boyd
1999-08-31 23:49 ` Earnie Boyd
0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Earnie Boyd @ 1999-08-25 6:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Telting, Cygwin Mailing List
--- Chris Telting <telting@sprynet.com> wrote:
> I was reading an old thread in the archive and I'm a bit confused now about
> the cygwin unix library licencing. I thought it was freely usable. But
> then I read this in the faq:
>
> <QUOTE>
> In particular, if you intend to port a commercial (non-GPL'd) application
> using Cygwin, you will need the commercial license to Cygwin that comes
> with the supported native Win32 GNUPro product. The commercial license for
> the Cygwin library is included in a GNUPro Toolkit subsciption. Pricing for
> GNUPro Subscription starts at $6000 for three developers and includes GNUPro
> Toolkit, Developer Support, and a commercial-use license for 100 copies of
> the cygwin library.
> </QUOTE>
>
> I understand the library is GPL'd and not LGPL'd but if it's GPL how can
> they can cygnus can be commercial licencers if there is code from other
> contributers? The library is a dll and as such it's dynamicly linked. Can
> anyone clarify this?
>
>
> BlueCoder
> bluecoder@rocketmail.com
> May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
>
Please, read all of the segments of this archive. It is explained fully there.
We went at it in length then and it doesn't need repeating now. Anyone else
repsonding to BlueCoder please do so off list.
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* Re: Cygwin licencing
1999-08-25 6:48 Earnie Boyd
@ 1999-08-31 23:49 ` Earnie Boyd
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From: Earnie Boyd @ 1999-08-31 23:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Chris Telting, Cygwin Mailing List
--- Chris Telting <telting@sprynet.com> wrote:
> I was reading an old thread in the archive and I'm a bit confused now about
> the cygwin unix library licencing. I thought it was freely usable. But
> then I read this in the faq:
>
> <QUOTE>
> In particular, if you intend to port a commercial (non-GPL'd) application
> using Cygwin, you will need the commercial license to Cygwin that comes
> with the supported native Win32 GNUPro product. The commercial license for
> the Cygwin library is included in a GNUPro Toolkit subsciption. Pricing for
> GNUPro Subscription starts at $6000 for three developers and includes GNUPro
> Toolkit, Developer Support, and a commercial-use license for 100 copies of
> the cygwin library.
> </QUOTE>
>
> I understand the library is GPL'd and not LGPL'd but if it's GPL how can
> they can cygnus can be commercial licencers if there is code from other
> contributers? The library is a dll and as such it's dynamicly linked. Can
> anyone clarify this?
>
>
> BlueCoder
> bluecoder@rocketmail.com
> May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
>
Please, read all of the segments of this archive. It is explained fully there.
We went at it in length then and it doesn't need repeating now. Anyone else
repsonding to BlueCoder please do so off list.
===
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