From: loki AT maison-otaku DOT net (Jeremy Blackman) Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97 13 Feb 1997 20:59:22 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: loki AT herne DOT dragoncat DOT net Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199702130133.RAA15164@andros.cygnus.com> Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com All right; here's my question (as long as we're pestering the Cygnus folks). What are the licensing terms exactly going to BE? For the current stuff I'm porting using gnu-win32, they are all things I originally wrote for Linux (or SunOS, etc), and the source code is freely available anyway (since all the Windows-specific changes are in #ifdef blocks and are present in the most recent source release for the UNIX platform). So no problems there. But what if, at some point in the future, I wanted to write and release something shareware (since I prefer gcc over VC++, generally speaking. I use VC++ enough at work, thanks). While I understand that if I then did not wish to release the source code (which with a shareware program is fair enough), then I'd need to pay Cygnus a fee, what is still unclear is HOW MUCH this fee exactly would be. If it's a flat fee of several thousand for a site license, obviously an independent programmer is not going to be able to afford it. If it's a per-product fee, likely an independent programmer will not be able to pay that, either. A lot of the current user base of Cygwin is just that; programmers working solo (or in small groups) outside of work on projects that interest them. If the fees are appropriate to who is licensing them (e.g. a small group of three programmers is far less likely to be able to handle, say, a $10,000 site license than, for example, a large software company would), then I don't see too much problem with this policy. Anyway, I'm just curious. Doesn't affect my current cygwin project one way or the other, but it would be nice to know. :) +---[ Loki ]------------+---------------------------------------------------+ | Jeremy Blackman | NeonMuck coder/maintainer - Multimedia MU*! | | loki AT maison-otaku DOT net | http://www.maison-otaku.net/neon | +-----------------------+---------------------------------------------------+ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".