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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 13:12:40 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Help!
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In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010216111647.023b7a40@pop4.antenna.nl>; from gent@irion.nl on Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:36:46AM +0000

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 11:36:46AM +0000, Joop van Gent wrote:
> Dear adressee,
> 
> I am sorry for this Subject, but we really need to draw some conclusions on 
> the following topic soon.
> 
> We are a Dutch software company that took the decision to adopt most of the 
> open source protocols, the GNU environment, because we wanted (a) to 
> support portability, particularly betwen Windows and UNIX platforms, and 
> (b) a good environment that developers feel happy with.
> 
> However, our company has to live from software sales, so we cannot deliver 
> our own source code to customers. For this reason we chose to compile with 
> Mingwin instead of Cygwin libraries after we read the license constraints 
> for Cygwin, and found out that we couldn't get the debugger (gdb) to work 
> under Windows 98/NT/2000, neither the tool we thought we could use for 
> memory leaks: MPatrol.
> 
> I am ever so willing to spend money on a good development platform with 
> support, but found out that there is no place to get that. So my main 
> question now is: is it possible to get a complete and working package of 
> software (gcc,gdb,cvs,mpatrol, etc.) on a commercial basis that allows us 
> to sell software products without having to deliver our own source code? Of 
> course we have no problem to deliver the source code that comes from the 
> GPL, it is our own software we have to protect.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your answer.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Joop van Gent
> CEO Irion Technologies BV
> http://www.irion.nl

Hello Joop,

You may redistribute the Cygwin DLL with your proprietary product when
purchasing a special license. At the bottom of the URL
	http://www.cygwin.com/licensing.html
you will find a contact address.

Corinna

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