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Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 02:01:59 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: simon DOT p DOT cozens AT jp DOT pwcglobal DOT com
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Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode
 determined ...
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> > If you were advocating that Cygwin be made 100% GPL and that Cygnus
> > *never* charge for a proprietary license, I think I could understand
> > this argument.  That's not what you want, though.
> 
> That's what I'd want, or something similar. In fact, I thought that was
> already the case, as I didn't realise that RedHat would do something
> like this. Blegh, that changes things. Yeah, the current licensing
> conditions would stop me from helping; there are free software projects
> I could be giving my time to instead.

I don't understand.  Why?  How would you, personally, benefit from us
not offering a proprietary-use license?

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