From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ej1-x630.google.com (mail-ej1-x630.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::630]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2F983858021 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:42:19 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org E2F983858021 Received: by mail-ej1-x630.google.com with SMTP id y17so1354926ejh.11 for ; Thu, 12 Nov 2020 02:42:19 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ux8DGr+BpmmtvvnbeqdtbydrNiWOT3kpCfo7mdS08jU=; b=RdEQZdh4/UMkBFpEgvxh80z44Y8mG63BLhhJvE6n8ffd9IW2C8G9BB0/GGyr8CndOj /GUQGWWFRZOc6gHPPRL42hn2XBjVFgZOI1RmQ0pFH1Q+L0Otv/ZnCntm4XW70JKMCvd4 T/lyZxBzyr4BcESIDzzMXRFnMLie1gNaRG27L4je43cGFVG074eiBWJQSxopOsLw7XnN ec+ihTGrOiaS3ABx8QS/qofSLBM9VfWcj3ws+9O20lxnjWYsJEpJqbvoBJM2RTKMv74v 8IeqD7NffKIsPCPmDlqyEI7WmeMsKE7VfNvipEPTCkEJTknR0xYg/ge+SxtE7NC5V0Xa MVNg== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM531wsT7Hibcj0xkqVE99iXRJewDzdb6ljfaFfaz0C6hUsrRRPFMe XLCjf/ENXXdw556Ogm3JCQbvy2Gd7xtf/Q== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyCgZ8xxET07ohcTICGSwOw5tL+jg7GX73ZfkQsCuSwfohQEiBpn6hw34fUol/Cvy8+Vzln8g== X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:4cca:: with SMTP id q10mr29480838ejt.181.1605177738673; Thu, 12 Nov 2020 02:42:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?IPv6:2003:cc:9f17:a2e8:e874:47:bae9:1de8? (p200300cc9f17a2e8e8740047bae91de8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de. [2003:cc:9f17:a2e8:e874:47:bae9:1de8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id fx1sm1950032ejb.12.2020.11.12.02.42.18 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Nov 2020 02:42:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: Commercial use of cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <34a5e2b9-5179-c0b6-e8b0-1245e7a4578f@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 11:42:18 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: it Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:42:21 -0000 On 12.11.2020 09:42, Antonio Sidoti via Cygwin wrote: > Hello, > > I was looking into using Cygwin for commercial use, but I couldn't really > understand if that was ok or not. > > From here and here > , > it seems like the basic cygwin library is available under LGPL, so ok to be > redistributed commercially if linked dynamically. > > When I looked for all the different dlls though, I couldn't really find all > the licenses. I looked at /usr/share/doc folder but could not find the > licenses for several packages > +cygblas-0.dll > +cyggfortran-4.dll > +cyggomp-1.dll > +cyglapack-0.dll > +cygncursesw-10.dll > +cygquadmath-0.dll > +cygreadline7.dll > > Is there any way you could provide some guidance on the topic? Is it > something you could help with? > (Of course in exchange of compensation) > > Thanks for your help. > Antonio > -- in general there is no restriction on usage. License are located on: for lapack and Blas: $ cygcheck -l liblapack-devel /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/lapack.README /usr/share/doc/lapack/LICENSE /usr/share/doc/lapack/README.md for gcc/fortran and gomp $ cygcheck -l gcc-core | grep COPYING /usr/share/doc/gcc/COPYING /usr/share/doc/gcc/COPYING.LIB for ncurses $ cygcheck -l ncurses | grep COPYING /usr/share/doc/ncurses/COPYING there are same restrictions if you plan to incorporate the tools in your own software tif you are redistributing it. (copy of source must also be distributed) Regards Marco