proprietary-use license?

2002-03-12 Thread Richard Chrenko 

We are a small research institute developing a Java-based solar energy
simulation which will be marketed to the renewable energy community. Our
program requires multi-platform database functionality which is why
PostgreSQL (and MySQL) came to mind. We would like to avoid any per-seat
charges such as MySQL requires. What are the licensing requirements or
charges for Cygwin/PostgreSQL?

Thank you for your help.
-- 
Richard Chrenko, Informatik
Institut für Solartechnik SPF
Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil, Oberseestr.10, CH-8640 Rapperswil
Tel +41 55 222 48 33, Fax +41 55 222 48 44, http://www.solarenergy.ch

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RE: proprietary-use license?

2002-03-12 Thread Peter Ring 

 What are the licensing requirements or charges for Cygwin/PostgreSQL?
   ^^

You are asking for legal advice, please consider if you'd better ask a
lawyer.

Read http://cygwin.com/licensing.html. Read http://cygwin.com/COPYING.

Depending on what you use and how you use it, you might be required to make
the source of your application freely available.

Red Hat sells a special Cygwin License for customers who are unable to
provide their application in open source code form. For more information,
please see: http://www.redhat.com/software/tools/cygwin/, or call
866-2REDHAT ext. 3007.

kind regards (and I'm not a lawyer ;))
Peter Ring


-Original Message-
From: Markus Hoenicka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 12. marts 2002 16:18
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: proprietary-use license?


Richard,

all programs that you mention (MySQL, Cygwin, PostgreSQL) are released
under free licenses. You do not have to pay per-seat charges for any
of these as long as you do not buy professional support.

regards,
Markus

Richard Chrenko writes:
  We are a small research institute developing a Java-based solar energy
  simulation which will be marketed to the renewable energy community. Our
  program requires multi-platform database functionality which is why
  PostgreSQL (and MySQL) came to mind. We would like to avoid any per-seat
  charges such as MySQL requires. What are the licensing requirements or
  charges for Cygwin/PostgreSQL?

-- 
Markus Hoenicka, PhD
UT Houston Medical School
Dept. of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
6431 Fannin MSB4.114
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 500-6313, -7477
(713) 500-7444 (fax)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hoenicka_markus/


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RE: proprietary-use license?

2002-03-12 Thread Schaible, Jorg 

Hi Markus,

all programs that you mention (MySQL, Cygwin, PostgreSQL) are released
under free licenses. You do not have to pay per-seat charges for any
of these as long as you do not buy professional support.

this is not generally true for MySQL and Cygwin. Both are only free if you
GPL your software too. There are some additional conditions where you might
not have to buy a license, but you may have a look at the license
information of both products yourself.

Regards,
Jorg

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