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 Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:54:50 -0400 Message-Id: <200005020154.VAA20252@envy.delorie.com> From: DJ Delorie To: gcouger@rfdata.net CC: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com In-reply-to: <06de01bfb3d7$1b3a2840$03000004@home.xxx> (message from Gordon Couger on Mon, 1 May 2000 20:38:22 -0500) Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? References: (simon.p.cozens@jp.pwcglobal.com) <200005011535936.SM00160@KENDALLB> <200005012333.TAA19230@envy.delorie.com> <06de01bfb3d7$1b3a2840$03000004@home.xxx> > As I understand it if I sell my code to some one to use on a Cygwin > platform I pay Cygwin for a license. A common misunderstanding. Whether you charge a fee or not, and whether you distribute source or not, are two completely separate things. You can "sell your code" and still distribute as free software; this is what Cygnus does with GNUPro. You can give it away without source; this is charityware (shareware, without the fee requirement). You can sell it without source; this is proprietary commercial software. You can give it away as free software; this is like our cygwin net releases. The GPL doesn't care if you charge a fee for your software or not. It only cares that you guarantee certain freedoms to all recipients of the software. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com