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From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com>
To: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <DAUTREVAUX AT microprocess DOT com>,
        "'DJ Delorie'" <dj AT delorie DOT com>,
        "Christopher G. Faylor" <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:38:28 -0500
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>I wonder if that was not precisely the reason of the lack of
>contributors to cygwin. Let make a supposition: suppose Linus had put
on
>the Linux kernel (the equivalent to cygwin.dll) a copyright saying that
>*any* program run under Linux *must* be distributed in source form
under
>the GPL...


Does the GPL applies to GNUPro, which is distributed for commercial
use?



>I'm quite sure Linux would *not* have been as successful as
>it is, would had *a lot* less contributors, and would certainly *not*
be
>promoted now by little guys like Compaq and HP...
>
>I would like to use cygwin, and I would certainly contribute to cygwin
>(helping to solve the problems that bother me in it), but I'm not
*able*
>to use it (I *have* to restrain to mingw32) because I have to live from
>my work and thus I have to sell my software.






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