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From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter)
Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97
14 Feb 1997 07:42:53 -0800 :
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Jeremy Blackman wrote:
> So
> far, Cygnus has been remarkably silent on this topic, despite repeated
> requests for information on this mailing list; that sort of disturbs me,
> truthfully.  I'd like to know what sort of terms there are on the
> cygwin.dll usage (financially, that is) before I get too used to using
> that instead of, say, mingw32 if I were to want to release a shareware
> (e.g. no source code) program using cygwin at some point in the future.

Cygnus has been anything but silent.  I think they've done their
best to answer every question put to them.  For that one,
Stan Shebs said 

>   ps. what are the terms for the license? 
>
> Still being worked on.  I bug the responsible folks regularly...

I don't see what more you can expect than that.

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