Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Brian Dessent
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: This means that if you are developing software for eventual release, you must also make the source code available when you make binaries available. If I develop an app and do not wish to have a requirement to install Cygwin I would use

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Brian Dessent wrote: The part that causes it to become GPL'd is the linking to cygwin1.dll, not the fact that Cygwin's gcc is used. If you use Cygwin's gcc in mingw mode then your program does not need cygwin1.dll and the program may be released under any license you choose, assuming there are

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: I also have to wonder how, as a long time reader of this list, you could *possibly* have missed the tedious discussion on this point that crops up on an almost weekly basis. I have to wonder why you think just because you may or may not talk about it ever so often that

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Bobby McNulty
Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: I also have to wonder how, as a long time reader of this list, you could *possibly* have missed the tedious discussion on this point that crops up on an almost weekly basis. I have to wonder why you think just because you may or may not talk

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-10 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Bobby McNulty wrote: Personally, I'm bored with the free verses copyrighted material. Then why are you here (I mean in this thread)? GPL means you should include your source code with your binary code. Simple. Redhat does it, Mandrake does it, Cygnus does it. Cygwin's sources are included in the

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Dessent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and Xclients etc., our developers can 1. use our own Windows base PC to emulate a UNIX-like environment to do the development; 2. use the X server to

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and Xclients etc., our developers can 1. use our own Windows base PC to emulate a

RE: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Reid Thompson
that's a dead url -- http://cygwin.com/licensing.html Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Christopher Faylor wrote: This means that if you are developing software for eventual release, you must also make the source code available when you make binaries available. If I develop an app and do not wish to have a requirement to install Cygwin I would use MingW, right? In that case is my

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 08:10:33AM -0700, Andrew DeFaria wrote: Christopher Faylor wrote: This means that if you are developing software for eventual release, you must also make the source code available when you make binaries available. If I develop an app and do not wish to have a

RE: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Larry Hall
At 10:10 AM 9/9/2004, Reid Thompson wrote: that's a dead url -- http://cygwin.com/licensing.html WFFM. Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own

Re: Is it free to use

2004-09-09 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:35:50AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are using Linux and UNIX environment to develop our own applications. By installing the Cygwin/X X Server, Xlib and Xclients etc., our developers can