Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:35:45 -0500 Message-Id: <199902251835.NAA16531@envy.delorie.com> X-Authentication-Warning: envy.delorie.com: dj set sender to dj AT envy DOT delorie DOT com using -f From: DJ Delorie To: Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: <004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0@InspirePharm.Com> (Ssiddiqi AT InspirePharm DOT Com) Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold References: <004c01be60ee$09a84c20$29acdfd0 AT InspirePharm DOT Com> > Does the GPL applies to GNUPro, which is distributed for commercial > use? GNUPro is made up of a number of components with a number of licensing terms, just like djgpp is. Those parts that are copyrighted by authors other than Cygnus, like gcc, must be distributed under the terms the author supplied, in this case the GPL. Cygnus can do nothing about that. However, Cygnus is the author of some of those parts (like I'm the author of djgpp's libc) and can choose alternate terms for alternate distributions. For example, our C runtime and cygwin runtimes were written by us, so we can decide that they're GPL for this release, and proprietary for that release. If you purchase a GNUPro distribution from us, it comes with the same software as a net release (except it's been QAd, may have some as-yet-unreleased improvements over the net release, and is supported by Cygnus) but we use a different license that lets you use our runtimes in proprietary applications. It just isn't practical to provide source code for cell phones :) The fees from these sales are the primary source of funding for the software, and thus pay for the net releases. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com