Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:58:37 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Licensing fee for cygwin 1.3.X Message-ID: <20030422145837.GB18471@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20030421234935.28536.qmail@web11203.mail.yahoo.com> <20030422083343.GA11865@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030422083343.GA11865@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 10:33:43AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote: >On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 04:49:35PM -0700, Robert Hua wrote: >> I am using my own custom DOS batch scripts to >> facilitate the launching of a commercial >> application. Some enhancements that I want to >> make in these scripts require more complex text >> manipulation than DOS can provide, but they are >> simple to do in a Unix shell (bash). >> >> Could the Unix text commands >> (e.g. grep, more, tail, etc) in Cygwin 1.3.x be >> used without incurring additional licensing fees? > >Sorry for blaspheming, but there are native Windows ports of all these tools >available, this would free you from the cygwin dll and is probably closer to >what you are looking for if you just need a few tools. For example here: > >http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ > >I remember a few other sources, but i do not have links at the moment, just >search in Google. There are still GPL issues, however. Using those tools would still require including source. You just wouldn't have to include the cygwin DLL source. I know this is pointed out in the next message but I wanted to make this point clear. Cygwin didn't invent the GPL and you can't circumvent the GPL just by not using applications that don't use Cygwin. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/