Mail Archives: cygwin/1997/02/13/20:59:22
All right; here's my question (as long as we're pestering the Cygnus folks).
What are the licensing terms exactly going to BE? For the current stuff
I'm porting using gnu-win32, they are all things I originally wrote for
Linux (or SunOS, etc), and the source code is freely available anyway
(since all the Windows-specific changes are in #ifdef blocks and are
present in the most recent source release for the UNIX platform). So no
problems there.
But what if, at some point in the future, I wanted to write and release
something shareware (since I prefer gcc over VC++, generally speaking. I
use VC++ enough at work, thanks). While I understand that if I then did
not wish to release the source code (which with a shareware program is
fair enough), then I'd need to pay Cygnus a fee, what is still unclear is
HOW MUCH this fee exactly would be.
If it's a flat fee of several thousand for a site license, obviously an
independent programmer is not going to be able to afford it. If it's a
per-product fee, likely an independent programmer will not be able to pay
that, either. A lot of the current user base of Cygwin is just that;
programmers working solo (or in small groups) outside of work on projects
that interest them. If the fees are appropriate to who is licensing them
(e.g. a small group of three programmers is far less likely to be able to
handle, say, a $10,000 site license than, for example, a large software
company would), then I don't see too much problem with this policy.
Anyway, I'm just curious. Doesn't affect my current cygwin project one
way or the other, but it would be nice to know. :)
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