Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <002701beeefe$46dee830$e9c956d1@hercules> From: "Chris Telting" To: "Cygwin Mailing List" Subject: Cygwin licencing Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 06:32:27 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 I was reading an old thread in the archive and I'm a bit confused now about the cygwin unix library licencing. I thought it was freely usable. But then I read this in the faq: In particular, if you intend to port a commercial (non-GPL'd) application using Cygwin, you will need the commercial license to Cygwin that comes with the supported native Win32 GNUPro product. The commercial license for the Cygwin library is included in a GNUPro Toolkit subsciption. Pricing for GNUPro Subscription starts at $6000 for three developers and includes GNUPro Toolkit, Developer Support, and a commercial-use license for 100 copies of the cygwin library. I understand the library is GPL'd and not LGPL'd but if it's GPL how can they can cygnus can be commercial licencers if there is code from other contributers? The library is a dll and as such it's dynamicly linked. Can anyone clarify this? BlueCoder bluecoder AT rocketmail DOT com May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com