Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:06:04 -0400 To: Cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ... Message-ID: <20000430220604.A3477@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, Cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.12i In-Reply-To: ; from simon.p.cozens@jp.pwcglobal.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:40:05AM +0900 On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:40:05AM +0900, simon.p.cozens@jp.pwcglobal.com wrote: >>If you were advocating that Cygwin be made 100% GPL and that Cygnus >>*never* charge for a proprietary license, I think I could understand >>this argument. That's not what you want, though. > >That's what I'd want, or something similar. In fact, I thought that >was already the case, as I didn't realise that RedHat would do >something like this. Blegh, that changes things. Yeah, the current >licensing conditions would stop me from helping; there are free >software projects I could be giving my time to instead. Well, I'm glad that this has been clarified for anyone who has read this thread. I certainly don't want to mislead anyone. Maybe I should mention that most of the Cygwin coding is done by third world laborers in inhumane sweat shops, too, just to finish off the rest of the people out there who were thinking about contributing. Anyway, I assume that this means you will be wiping Cygwin from your system. It certainly wouldn't make sense to keep on using the product if you have strong moral reservations against Red Hat using it to sell an occasional proprietary license. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com