From: jra AT cygnus DOT com (Jeremy Allison) Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97 15 Feb 1997 17:46:27 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199702160104.RAA01426.cygnus.gnu-win32@rtl.cygnus.com> Original-To: jqb AT netcom DOT com, shebs AT cygnus DOT com Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Jim Balter wrote : > So when Jeremy Allison says "This allows you to use Cygwin32 and not share your > source (boo, hiss)", he is at the very least leaving a false impression. > The folks he is booing and hissing are the people that are his source > of income. Well, yes. And your point is (other than implying I am 'at least leaving a false impression' something I would stongly deny) ? Actually I make my income from porting Cygnus's Kerberos code to Windows NT, thanks very much. Yes, that's proprietary and we don't release under the GPL. I also happen to work on the Cygwin32 DLL which I don't consider proprietary as it *is* released under the GPL. Yes, Cygnus is going to sell it to commercial developers and allow them to buy out of the GPL. Yes, I don't much like folks who don't share their source. Everything I develop not directly for Cygnus I make available under the GPL. Can you say the same ? Just because I sell to commercial software developers doesn't mean I have to share their ideals. Bottom line. Yes we are going to allow people to 'buy out of' the GPL. Yes, we will make the same source available to GPL developers because we like them. If you want to make money by using Cygwin32 and hiding your sources you're going to have to pay (explicit note for all the GPL-challenged, if you make money using Cygwin32 but don't hide your sources then you won't have to pay Cygnus a penny). I think that's a pretty good deal, sorry you don't agree. When you develop your own UNIX emulation library be sure to allow comercial developers to make money on it for free - I'll look forward to seing your source code. Good luck and happy coding. Jeremy Allison, jra 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".