From: jqb AT netcom DOT com (Jim Balter) Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97 9 Feb 1997 23:18:02 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32FE9EFB.40EE.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcom.com> References: <199702090929 DOT BAA15375 AT rtl DOT cygnus DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (WinNT; I) Original-To: Keith Gary Boyce Original-CC: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Keith Gary Boyce wrote: > > So that was the plan.. Cygnus does actually have a plan to make money > from our collective effort. I applaud them for this since everyone deserves > to be able to make money for their efforts. Collective effort? I don't see your copyright on any of the code. I suppose Microsoft, Netscape, et. al. should give all the beta testers royalties as a reward for their "collective effort", eh? > Unfortunently what they are > saying is only they can make money from this effort. The software is free, so they can say it but it isn't so. Cygnus can make money off of support, as they have always done (see their motto); you can too, and they can't stop you. But if they think they can make money off of licenses for cygwin.dll, they are dreaming (I won't even comment about the claims about "most complete", "true compatibility", and "POSIX" in that press release, except that the latter opens them up to a lawsuit if they haven't been POSIX-certified). They have already given the code away under the GPL. They can put any new developments (which would *certainly* not be "collective") under a different copyright and hoard the source. If they don't hoard the source, then to allow commercial customers to use it in proprietary products they have to put it under the LGPL, and once they have done that anyone can include it in a proprietary product without paying for a license. > What we collectively > need to do is assist in the development of minimal gnu-win32 so that we can > also aspire to make money if we so desire. You always have to option not to use code under the GPL. If mingw32 doesn't include any, then that's one of the infinite ways to do so. -- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".