Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/02/16/07:15:43
On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:36:46AM +0000, Joop van Gent wrote:
> Dear adressee,
>
> I am sorry for this Subject, but we really need to draw some conclusions on
> the following topic soon.
>
> We are a Dutch software company that took the decision to adopt most of the
> open source protocols, the GNU environment, because we wanted (a) to
> support portability, particularly betwen Windows and UNIX platforms, and
> (b) a good environment that developers feel happy with.
>
> However, our company has to live from software sales, so we cannot deliver
> our own source code to customers. For this reason we chose to compile with
> Mingwin instead of Cygwin libraries after we read the license constraints
> for Cygwin, and found out that we couldn't get the debugger (gdb) to work
> under Windows 98/NT/2000, neither the tool we thought we could use for
> memory leaks: MPatrol.
>
> I am ever so willing to spend money on a good development platform with
> support, but found out that there is no place to get that. So my main
> question now is: is it possible to get a complete and working package of
> software (gcc,gdb,cvs,mpatrol, etc.) on a commercial basis that allows us
> to sell software products without having to deliver our own source code? Of
> course we have no problem to deliver the source code that comes from the
> GPL, it is our own software we have to protect.
>
> Thanks in advance for your answer.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Joop van Gent
> CEO Irion Technologies BV
> http://www.irion.nl
Hello Joop,
You may redistribute the Cygwin DLL with your proprietary product when
purchasing a special license. At the bottom of the URL
http://www.cygwin.com/licensing.html
you will find a contact address.
Corinna
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