From:	noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject:	Re: Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms
10 Jul 1997 21:03:38 -0700 :
Approved:	cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Distribution:	cygnus
Message-ID:	<199707110203.TAA01657.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com>
Original-To:	marcus AT cathcart DOT sysc DOT pdx DOT edu (Marcus G. Daniels)
Original-Cc:	gordoni AT cygnus DOT com, abraham AT dina DOT kvl DOT dk, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
In-Reply-To:	<rfirad7mw1g.fsf@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu> from "Marcus G. Daniels" at Jul 9, 97 08:21:47 pm
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Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> 
> In the free software community, the question for contributors is
> whether it makes sense to work on the cygwin32 Unix emulation code now
> that it is no longer free software.

Whether it will still be free software or not once it is under the new
license agreement is a question that could be debated for a long time.
(Let's not though).  :-)

Some people see Cygwin32 as significantly more free under the new
license since it will be much more usable for commercial projects.  Others
will feel that software not under the (L)GPL is not truly free.  Both
views are probably right to some extent.

Cygnus is a for-profit free software company.  This new license attempts to
make the Cygwin32 technology as usable as possible by others as long as
doing so does not directly work against our business interests.  This
seems quite fair to me.

Regards,

Geoffrey Noer
noer AT cygnus DOT com
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