Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/02/11/21:18:02
The issue/problem with Cygnus is that clarification on licensing terms
were not issued until in the more recent distributions. Moreover, the full
license costs are STILL not announced. It is difficult to make product
decisions without knowing if there is a one time license of $5,000 or
if it with be $50,000 annually, or a steep per-license royalty. Cygnus'
position on this will determine the near-term of anything requiring or
shipping with their DLLs. As it stands, Cygnus seems to be using the Data
Focus approach to licensing, which may turn pregnant possibilities to
still-births, and ensure that cygwin32 never enjoys the ubiquitous use they
envision. Too bad.
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> Paul Shirley, you wrote:
> >
> > Jim Balter <jqb AT netcom DOT com> writes
> > >> Unfortunently what they are
> > >> saying is only they can make money from this effort.
> >
> > No. What they are saying is you can make money under the LGPL licence
> > terms *or* pay them some money for normal commercial terms (ie no
> > source/object distribution required)
>
> That's correct, except that the cygwin library is available under GPL
> terms, not LGPL terms. That is quite a significant difference. If it
> were LGPL'd, then you could use cygwin without having to release source
> to your application, but you can't do that under the GPL. So the
> current situation is that if you want to use the cygwin library, and
> you don't want to release source, then you have to pay Cygnus for a
> commercial license.
>
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