From:	garp AT opustel DOT com (Keith Garry Boyce )
Subject:	Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97
13 Feb 1997 01:06:33 -0800 :
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I was just a hypothetical. I have never released a binary without source
in the past and have no intention of doing as I stated. I just figured that
others might want to do that kind of stuff since whatever other reason
would one have for hoarding the source.
--- On Wed, 12 Feb 1997 17:51:33 -0800  Stan Shebs <shebs AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:

   Date: Wed, 12 Feb 97 19:47:30 -0500
   From: Keith Gary Boyce  <garp AT opustel DOT com>

   Ok I agree with this is some regard except that Cygnus offers no 
guarantees 
   that you wouldn't come after me any time in the future.
      i.e. if I post an app on the web and lots of people download it and
	   use it. Let's say I don't post the source at that time.
	   If I later decide to commercialize it and devise a way to not
	   link it against cygwin32 then someone may come to me asking me
	   for the source of the original code (a compeditor to my new code)
	   and legally I would have to give them. 

That could certainly happen.  You would have to decide ahead of time
whether you wanted to be commercial or not.  I really hate the
practice of peppering the world with some binary to see how it goes,
then deciding to charge money and hoard the source if it becomes
popular, so you're not going to get much sympathy from me.  Not an
official Cygnus viewpoint though...

							Stan


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Name: Garry Boyce
E-mail: garp AT opustel DOT opustel DOT com (Garry Boyce)
Date: 02/12/97
Time: 22:43:40

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