From: garp AT opustel DOT com (Keith Gary Boyce ) Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97 13 Feb 1997 00:25:18 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, Stan Shebs X-Mailer: Chameleon ATX 6.0.1, Standards Based IntraNet Solutions, NetManage Inc. X-Face: ^DH_.wR&WxVpl/6xSwb1zT".+d0hm%R>&bOD: y{? X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Ok I agree with this is some regard except that Cygnus offers no guarantees that you wouldn't come after me any time in the future. i.e. if I post an app on the web and lots of people download it and use it. Let's say I don't post the source at that time. If I later decide to commercialize it and devise a way to not link it against cygwin32 then someone may come to me asking me for the source of the original code (a compeditor to my new code) and legally I would have to give them. I too would encourage programmmers to share their sources so others can learn from them. --- On 11 Feb 1997 15:32:50 -0800 Stan Shebs wrote: garp AT opustel DOT com (Keith Gary Boyce ) writes: > Will someone from cygnus define commercial. Does that mean if you say > something like "If you like send $x to y" that's fine and you don't need a > licence. And if you produce binarys and say something like this does that > mean you are also obligated to share source code for free. Jeremy had it pretty accurate, but "commercial" is not entirely relevant. Technically, if you use the GPLed library in a freeware app, then you would have to make the app's sources available upon request to anyone you gave the binary to (note: not to just anyone, just those that *you* gave it to). In practice, I would expect that we would not bother to pursue any such cases - not much to be gained by it. However, I personally would like to encourage freeware authors to make their sources available; there is an unfortunate tendency in the PC and Mac world to distribute binaries and hoard sources, which makes it much less likely that programmers can learn from each other. Stan Shebs Cygnus Support shebs AT cygnus DOT com - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". ---------------End of Original Message----------------- ------------------------------------- Name: Garry Boyce E-mail: garp AT opustel DOT opustel DOT com (Garry Boyce) Date: 02/12/97 Time: 19:47:31 This message was sent by Chameleon ------------------------------------- - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".