Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm 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 To: Charles Wilson Cc: Cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmodedetermined ... References: <390CE90A DOT FA04540F AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> From: Adrian Phillips Date: 01 May 2000 09:39:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: Charles Wilson's message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 22:16:42 -0400" Message-ID: <871z3mbtxb.fsf@grannyogg.localnet> Lines: 31 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Wilson writes: Charles> 4. Cygnus has invested lots of money and paid the Charles> salaries of lots of developers for a long time. They own Charles> the original copyright, and it's their privelege to Charles> release the software under any license they like -- GPL Charles> [free(speech) for free(beer)] or proprietary Charles> [non-free(closed) for non-free($$$$)]. They could release Charles> it under the Artistic license or the Debian license if Hmm, one small point, Debian doesn't have a license - it has the Debian Free SOftware Guidelines from which Open Source was written; the DSFG specifies which licenses it considers free, GPL, BSD, Artistic, the new QPL license, are all examples of "free" licenses (again free means free speech not free beer). Check out www.debian.org for the DSFG text. Charles> they liked. Whatever -- it's their product. If some Charles> bonehead company that doesn't "get" open source comes Charles> along and says, "We'd love to use Cygwin -- but we're Charles> stupid and we'd like to insure our eventual demise by Charles> keeping our code closed." What should Cygnus do? Reply, Charles> "No, go use that MS product they just absorbed." ?? Sincerely, Adrian Phillips -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com