From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Essex To: Cc: Ian Lance Taylor Subject: Commercial Licensing Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 10:32:00 -0000 Message-id: <3.0.1.32.19970328133822.006a68d0@aracnet.net> References: <33392F1D.3A7@tid.es> <199703261608.LAA12305@sanguine.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1997-03/msg00519.html Ian Lance Taylor 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 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".