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 From: "Kendall Bennett" Organization: SciTech Software, Inc. To: DJ Delorie Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 18:59:04 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ... CC: Cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com In-reply-to: <200005020004.UAA19429@envy.delorie.com> References: <200005011535376 DOT SM00160 AT KENDALLB> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12b) Message-Id: <200005011901172.SM00160@KENDALLB> DJ Delorie wrote: > > In this case what is being paid for here is the development work to get new > > stuff implemented in the compiler. Personally I find it a 'bending' of the > > rules if proprietry additions are made to GPL'ed compilers and *not* being > > made available to the general public (even if the developer who paid for > > the modifications does get all the source code). > > The additions are not proprietary. They are covered by the GPL, just > like the rest of the compiler. The GPL says *nothing* about making > changes available to the general public. Interesting. That is definately a view of the GPL that I have never seen before. > > Which brings up an interesting question. Are the additions that > > Cygnus makes for commercial development made readily available to > > anyone who asks? > > No. The GPL does not require us to give sources to just anyone. It > only requires that we give sources to those who have the binaries, and > we do. Hmmm. I need to research this some more. > > If they aren't, then IMHO that would be a rather large violation of > > the GPL. > > No, it isn't. Ask your lawyers to interpret the GPL for you, > you're doing a rather bad job of it. Well of course I am not a lawyer. Regards, +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | SciTech Software - Building Truly Plug'n'Play Software! | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Kendall Bennett | Email: KendallB AT scitechsoft DOT com | | Director of Engineering | Phone: (530) 894 8400 | | SciTech Software, Inc. | Fax : (530) 894 9069 | | 505 Wall Street | ftp : ftp.scitechsoft.com | | Chico, CA 95928, USA | www : http://www.scitechsoft.com | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com