Subject: Re: Legal aspects of using the GNU-Win32 tools?
From: [email-masked] (jman)

26 Nov 1997 22:23:24 -0800
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To: Jason Zions <[email-masked]>,
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 I will have my lawyer who specialist in Internet/Copyright laws 
etc.. to look over the license an see what she can tell about it 
maybe put some of it in lamans terms... I'll post her info to the 
list when she gives it to me, is there any questions that need to be 
answered?

At 12:25 PM 11/25/97 -0500, Jason Zions wrote:
>You're missing a nice long talk with the University legal 
department;
>they exist for exactly this reason. Please, for your sake, talk to
>someone with a license to practice law.
>
>Personal opinions about what the cygwin license means are 
*worthless*;
>even the personal opinions of the non-lawyers at Cygnus. The precise
>meaning of legal terminology is frequently counter-intuitive;
>common-sense reasoning about license terms can be dangerous.
>
>The only way you'll know for sure whether or not you're okay is by
>spending some, um, "quality time" with a lawyer.
>
>Jason Zions
>Softway Systems, makers of OpenNT, POSIX for Windows NT
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