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 Message-ID: <8135911A809AD211AF6300A02480D175034934@iis000.microdata.fr> From: Bernard Dautrevaux To: "'Chris Faylor'" , Earnie Boyd Cc: G DOT Heiser AT unsw DOT edu DOT au, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: RE: Cygwin license Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 19:40:35 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.1960.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id OAA02917 > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf AT cygnus DOT com] > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 4:42 PM > To: Earnie Boyd > Cc: G DOT Heiser AT unsw DOT edu DOT au; cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com > Subject: Re: Cygwin license > ... > We do consider changing the licensing from time to time but, > so far, no > one has been able to convince the powers that be at Cygnus that making > cygwin into a LGPLed program would be worthwhile. It would certainly > remove some of the incentive for buying the commercial product but, > perhaps more importantly, it would allow people to produce proprietary > applications based on the cygwin DLL. That does not sound like a good > plan to me. But a good plan is having Cygwin get some Kbucks (I've heard 8K$? is that true) to allow "produce proprietary applications based on the cygwin DLL"?... This seems a bit hard to defend: Either you are strongly supporting open source and do NOT want anybody producing proprietary code based on cygwin and then you should stop selling licenses to cygwin that allow that; either you think this is not immoral and then you should not CHARGE a fee for that... It seems having cygwin GPLed has only one objective: subvert the open source concept by getting people test and enhance a piece of code that is in fact proprietary Cygnus software that generates revenues to Cygnus by selling licenses to use a GPLed product. Excuse me if I'm a bit confused, but the situation is confusing... Best regards, Bernard -------------------------------------------- Bernard Dautrevaux Microprocess Ingéniérie 97 bis, rue de Colombes 92400 COURBEVOIE FRANCE Tel: +33 (0) 1 47 68 80 80 Fax: +33 (0) 1 47 88 97 85 e-mail: dautrevaux AT microprocess DOT com b DOT dautrevaux AT usa DOT net -------------------------------------------- -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com