From: boncz AT wins DOT uva DOT nl (Peter Boncz) Subject: CVS? UWIN? license? 29 Sep 1997 04:25:50 -0700 Message-ID: <342F8915.4437.cygnus.gnu-win32@fwi.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hi, I've been looking at, and playing with gnu-win32 since release 15, and think you do a great job! Keep it up! UWIN? ===== Lately I saw references to the Uwin project, which seems to do exactly the same thing as gnu-win32. (http://www.gtlinc.com/Products/Uwin/Uwin.html). It's a project done by Korne (ksh) at ATT Bell Labs, and being commercialized by a company I don't know. I wonder whether this project was known to you people (must be, really, but I didn't see references to it at web site and other documentation). They have some papers published at USENIX that might be interesting from the technical point for you WIN32 hackers. Uwin doesn't support the GNU tools (stupid..), though it shouldn't be too difficult for them to add it. I prefer to work with the GNU stuff since it's good quality and so nicely portable. So I stick with gnu-win32. LICENSE? ======== I used it for porting my research database Monet (http://www.cwi.nl/~monet) and am wondering what would be the terms for distributing a commercial WIN32 Monet that depends on cygwin.dll. Is it possible, as long as I just distribute Monet, and leave installing gnu-win32 to the users themselves (a construction a la visual basic), or is this just impossible due to the GPL? Or would I need the possibly upcoming commercial gnu-win32 license (and what would be the terms, if so)? CVS? ==== As a closing question, I would like to ask wheter anybody got CVS up? I use it in a distributed setting (with ssh). Or I I simply asking too much? -- === P.A. Boncz ================= phone: +31-20-525 7580 === WCW room F106 === === (Ph.D. student) email: boncz AT fwi DOT uva DOT nl === === Magnum Database Project PGP: finger boncz AT chart DOT fwi DOT uva DOT nl === === University of Amsterdam ====== WWW: http://www.fwi.uva.nl/~boncz/ ======= - 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".