From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor) Subject: Re: Nobody in the world understands Gnu's 'ld'. 27 Mar 1997 16:43:03 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703261608.LAA12305.cygnus.gnu-win32@sanguine.cygnus.com> Original-To: paag AT tid DOT es Original-Cc: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <33392F1D.3A7@tid.es> (paag@tid.es) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:13:49 +0100 From: "Pedro A. Aranda Guti\irrez" > > I'd love to have some documentation if you care to write some and > > contribute it. This is, after all, free software. It improves by > > contributions. Contributions sold afterwards by Cygnus. Forgive me, but if my work is going to produce benefits, they should be for me and not for someone else. I'm no DOn Quijote. Ergo => all this commercial licensing stuff of Cygnus has somehow rarified the atmosphere of FSF'ish software (that's at least my feeling and my VERY personal opinion) Don't get confused. BFD, gas, ld, the binutils, are all under the GPL and always have been. Any contributions you or anybody chooses to make will be made under the GPL, will require a copyright assignment to the Free Software Foundation, and will be included in future binutils net releases for anybody to use. The commercial licensing stuff applies only to the gnu win32 library itself, which is copyrighted by Cygnus. It does not apply to the binutils. On another topic, to quote you: ``if my work is going to produce benefits, they should be for me and not for someone else. I'm no DOn Quijote.'' I'm sorry you feel that way. If you are using the GNU binutils, or any FSF software, or indeed the GPL version of gnu-win32 itself, then you are benefitting from the work of people who are rather less selfish than you seem to be. I've been working in free software for several years now, starting some years before I joined Cygnus. I would certainly say ``if my work is going to produce benefits, they should be for me.'' I don't work out of altruism. However, I would never say that the benefits should not be for someone else as well. Ian - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".