Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:12:20 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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In-reply-to: <36FFF152.6F55@cam.org> (message from Vic on Mon, 29 Mar 1999
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Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
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> > Sorry, wrong.  Cygwin is GPL.  It is just as free as DJGPP.
>
> can you make commercial programs with it and sell them without
> distributing code (as you can do in DJGPP?)

You are misinterpreting the meaning of "free".  The *users* have
freedom, not you.  By allowing you to trap DJGPP's code inside a
proprietary application, I have actually made DJGPP *less* free than
Cygwin, since Cygwin doesn't allow you to subvert the source like
that.  Developers who write source-less programs with DJGPP (like
Quake) have actually stolen freedom from the people using that
software, as those users do not have the freedom to modify the program
to suit their needs.

If you wish to produce proprietary ("commercial" is the wrong word
here) programs with Cygwin, you may purchase a suitable license to do
so from the authors (Cygnus), just like any other commercial toolkit.

Of course, consider that I *do* allow such use, so you know what *my*
opinion is.

DJ