From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms 11 Jul 1997 01:23:06 -0700 Sender: mail AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199707110550.PAA32642.cygnus.gnu-win32@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU> References: <199707110203 DOT TAA01657 AT cirdan DOT cygnus DOT com> Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Geoffrey Noer writes: >Cygnus is a for-profit free software company. This new license attempts to >make the Cygwin32 technology as usable as possible by others as long as >doing so does not directly work against our business interests. Do you consider what is good for other free software developers as being bad for Cygnus's business interests? I think it is in Cygnus's interests to foster cooperation between different free software developers. By licensing cygwin32 only under the new cygwin32 license, Cygnus is making use of cygwin32 difficult for other free software developers that happen to make Embedded_Systems_Development_Software or Compiler_Suites. The new license prevents organizations such as my own (the Mercury research group at the University of Melbourne) or ACT (the free software company that supports GNAT, the GNU Ada compiler) from distributing cygwin.dll. This may or may not be good for Cygnus, but it certainly seems bad for free software, IMHO. -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh AT 128 DOT 250 DOT 37 DOT 3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".