From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Help! Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 04:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010216131240.C13748@cygbert.vinschen.de> References: <5.0.0.25.0.20010216111647.023b7a40@pop4.antenna.nl> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00967.html On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:36:46AM +0000, Joop van Gent wrote: > Dear adressee, > > I am sorry for this Subject, but we really need to draw some conclusions on > the following topic soon. > > We are a Dutch software company that took the decision to adopt most of the > open source protocols, the GNU environment, because we wanted (a) to > support portability, particularly betwen Windows and UNIX platforms, and > (b) a good environment that developers feel happy with. > > However, our company has to live from software sales, so we cannot deliver > our own source code to customers. For this reason we chose to compile with > Mingwin instead of Cygwin libraries after we read the license constraints > for Cygwin, and found out that we couldn't get the debugger (gdb) to work > under Windows 98/NT/2000, neither the tool we thought we could use for > memory leaks: MPatrol. > > I am ever so willing to spend money on a good development platform with > support, but found out that there is no place to get that. So my main > question now is: is it possible to get a complete and working package of > software (gcc,gdb,cvs,mpatrol, etc.) on a commercial basis that allows us > to sell software products without having to deliver our own source code? Of > course we have no problem to deliver the source code that comes from the > GPL, it is our own software we have to protect. > > Thanks in advance for your answer. > > Kind regards, > > Joop van Gent > CEO Irion Technologies BV > http://www.irion.nl Hello Joop, You may redistribute the Cygwin DLL with your proprietary product when purchasing a special license. At the bottom of the URL http://www.cygwin.com/licensing.html you will find a contact address. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple