From:	Richard DOT Watts AT cl DOT cam DOT ac DOT uk (Richard Watts)
Subject:	Re: using cygnus-gnu-win32 for commercial projects.
23 Jan 1997 09:13:37 -0800 :
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On Wed 22 January 1997, Geoffrey Noer
<noer AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:

>Aurel Balmosan wrote:
>> 
[snip]
>
>You should not have to worry about the GPL unless you want to use
>the cygwin.dll in conjunction with distribution of non-GPL'd
>proprietary apps.

 Is there any chance of excepting the libraries and putting them
under the LGPL ? There is quite a bit of interesting free software
out there that is distributed under a more general license than
the GPL (eg. Berkeley copyright, or the Digital SRC Modula-3 
licence), and it's very frustrating to either have to tell new 
users `no, sorry, you'll have to buy MSVC because we don't want 
to trap the distribution in the GPL' (and then write our own
Unix-emulation on top of that), or to have to maintain huge
patch-lists for the same reason (and the patch lists are 
dodgy in themselves).

 [ cue GPL rant > gnu.misc.discuss ]


Richard.
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