From: David Essex <dessex@widow.aracnet.net>
To: <gnu-win32@cygnus.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
Subject: Commercial Licensing
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 10:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19970328133822.006a68d0@aracnet.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199703261608.LAA12305@sanguine.cygnus.com>
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> wrote:
>BFD, gas, ld, the binutils, are all under the GPL
>and always have been. Any contributions you or anybody chooses to
>make will be made under the GPL, will require a copyright assignment
>to the Free Software Foundation, and will be included in future
>binutils net releases for anybody to use.
>
>The commercial licensing stuff applies only to the gnu win32 library
>itself, which is copyrighted by Cygnus. It does not apply to the
>binutils.
Commercial licensing ?
The cygnus gnu-win32 web page says that this is free software.
If win32 library is part of gnu why do you need a commercial license ?
Could some one expand on this ?
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-03-28 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-25 12:55 Nobody in the world understands Gnu's 'ld' Ian Lance Taylor
1997-03-25 20:52 ` Mr Taylor surely understands ld: a correction to my previous post root
1997-03-27 8:16 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-25 23:17 ` Nobody in the world understands Gnu's 'ld' Fergus Henderson
1997-03-26 10:43 ` Joel Dinolt
1997-03-27 9:46 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-03-27 20:59 ` Pedro A. Aranda Gutiirrez
1997-03-27 9:46 ` Ian Lance Taylor
1997-03-28 10:32 ` David Essex [this message]
1997-03-28 19:43 ` Commercial Licensing Jim Balter
1997-03-29 0:06 ` Geoffrey Noer
1997-03-27 22:51 ` Nobody in the world understands Gnu's 'ld' Ian Lance Taylor
1997-03-29 5:40 Commercial Licensing Reed Kotler Consulting
1997-03-29 17:29 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-30 18:44 Reed Kotler Consulting
1997-03-30 22:35 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-30 21:22 Reed Kotler Consulting
1997-03-30 22:35 ` Jim Balter
1997-03-30 23:21 Reed Kotler Consulting
1997-03-30 20:51 ` Jim Balter
1997-04-01 4:09 ` Robert W. Fuller
1997-03-31 11:05 Reed Kotler Consulting
1997-03-31 6:07 ` Jim Balter
1997-04-01 13:02 ` Fergus Henderson
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