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 X-Info: This message was accepted for relay by smtp03.mrf.mail.rcn.net as the sender used SMTP authentication X-Trace: UmFuZG9tSVb+fzGW564Ujt22rVY/EgZgSaJYOkFDkOrhMfNQ8jqiGHXYgcuAAKF4 Message-ID: <3EF23B72.4060000@cygwin.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 18:38:42 -0400 From: Larry Hall Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cary Lewis CC: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Question about Cygwin License References: <3E2D8043936AD611AF7D00508B5E9F4B45E45C@server3.mobilecom.com> In-Reply-To: <3E2D8043936AD611AF7D00508B5E9F4B45E45C@server3.mobilecom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cary Lewis wrote: > I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. > > As I do not want to publish my source code, I know I need a "breakout" > license from RedHat. > > I am not changing cygwin, I am simply using the cygwin.dll to get a Unix > based system to run under Windows. > > Has anyone purchased a breakout license? > > I was told today that the cost was $50,000.00 USD for a 3 year license. > > Does that sound right? > > It seems unbelievably high to me, considering that MKS has a very similar > product at only $5,000.00 (which includes 50 run time > Licenses) > > Any advice would be appreciated. Seems simple to me. If your usage would violate the GPL, you need an alternative. If you don't like the alternative, you can attempt to negotiate with Red Hat. Otherwise, if you feel there are alternatives that are better for you, go with them. I guess I don't see the problem. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/