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From:	ejfried AT ca DOT sandia DOT gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
Message-Id:	<200304221208.FAA18937@ca.sandia.gov>
Subject:	Re: Licensing fee for Cygwin 1.3.X
In-Reply-To:	<20030422083343.GA11865@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> from Diego
	Biurrun at "Apr 22, 2003 10:33:43 am"
To:	Diego Biurrun <diego AT biurrun DOT de>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2003 05:08:48 -0700 (PDT)
CC:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
MIME-Version:	1.0

I think Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > Could the Unix text commands
> > (e.g. grep, more, tail, etc) in Cygwin 1.3.x be
> > used without incurring additional licensing fees?
> 
> Sorry for blaspheming, but there are native Windows ports of all these tools
> available, this would free you from the cygwin dll and is probably closer to
> what you are looking for if you just need a few tools.  For example here:
> 
> http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/
> 

Note that these are all GPL as well -- i.e., he'd still have to
distribute the source.


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