Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:35:45 -0500 Message-Id: <199902251835.NAA16531@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj@envy.delorie.com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> (Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com) Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold References: <004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> > Does the GPL applies to GNUPro, which is distributed for commercial > use? GNUPro is made up of a number of components with a number of licensing terms, just like djgpp is. Those parts that are copyrighted by authors other than Cygnus, like gcc, must be distributed under the terms the author supplied, in this case the GPL. Cygnus can do nothing about that. However, Cygnus is the author of some of those parts (like I'm the author of djgpp's libc) and can choose alternate terms for alternate distributions. For example, our C runtime and cygwin runtimes were written by us, so we can decide that they're GPL for this release, and proprietary for that release. If you purchase a GNUPro distribution from us, it comes with the same software as a net release (except it's been QAd, may have some as-yet-unreleased improvements over the net release, and is supported by Cygnus) but we use a different license that lets you use our runtimes in proprietary applications. It just isn't practical to provide source code for cell phones :) The fees from these sales are the primary source of funding for the software, and thus pay for the net releases. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com