Mailing-List: contact cygwin-developers-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-developers-owner AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <3741DDE0.23F4E7CC@uni-duesseldorf.de> Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:38:40 +0200 From: Stipe Tolj Organization: Department of Economical Computer Science, University of Cologne, Germany X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [de]C-NECCK (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com Subject: [RFC] apache-cygwin licensing conflicts Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, this is a request for comments on the issue of integrating our apache port to the official Apache Group distribution. I'm currently dealing with the guys from apache.org to add our cygwin patch to their distribution. At least adding the patch to the source distribution would not violate any of both -- cygwin nor apache -- licensing agreements since the cygwin license only applies for binaries, is that right? Unfortunatly any binary distrbution would ether violate the cygwin or apache license, since both _would_ apply to the binary. Someone of you "officials" at Cygnus has stated that Cygnus may grand flexible privilidges at least for special purposes or occations for the cygwin library license. Since apache is an huge and accepted project and we would allow Win32 based users to use a posix complatible apache version beside the commercial Win32 native MSVC version this would be a great opportunity. May it be possible -- regarding Cygnus officials side -- to grand a more flexible and compatible licensing term to be able to fully support the cygwin platform within the apache official distrbution? Best regards, Stipe -- Stipe Tolj Cygwin Porting Project -- "We build UNIX on top of Windows" http://www.student.uni-koeln.de/cygwin/ Department of Economical Computer Science University of Cologne, Germany