Cygwin license

Hello people developing Cygwin. I'm deeply impressed with all things you made with GNU tools when ported them into Win32 platform. We're interested in including some certain tools with our own commercial software. We consider two possible ways: a) shipping your tools as a separated package that wo

cygwin license

is cygwin GPL? is it free or not? How do i get it? -- WWW.XGFORCE.COM - The Leader in System Clustering and Enterprise Firewall/VPN solution. -- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubs

About Cygwin license

Hello What do you think about next situation? I have made an software, that I'm going to sell. My software uses PostgreSql database system, witch is distributed under BSD license. If I want to get PostgreSql run in Windows environment, I need Cygwin. My software -(direct use)-> JDBC -(socket)->

Re: cygwin license

I've forwarded this request to our sales organization. On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:37:21AM +0400, Dmitri Dmitrienko wrote: >Hello people developing Cygwin. > >I'm deeply impressed with all things you made with GNU tools when ported >them into Win32 platform. >We're interested in including some cert

Re: cygwin license

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:55:09 -0500, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've forwarded this request to our sales organization. > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 04:37:21AM +0400, Dmitri Dmitrienko wrote: > >Hello people developing Cygwin. > >

Re: cygwin license

Ehud, [ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS spy-ware. ] At 04:44 2003-04-02, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... I'm intending to do a similar thing - to make a CD w

Re: cygwin license

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting >I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS >spy-ware. ] Good answer. You've earned the star. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: htt

Re: cygwin license

At 10:40 2003-04-02, you wrote: On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting >I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS >spy-ware. ] Good answer. You've earned the star. Wow. P

Re: cygwin license

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 10:40 2003-04-02, you wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > >[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting > > >I would cease to use Cygwin in favor of Linux because of my fear of MS

Re: cygwin license

Igor, At 13:34 2003-04-02, you wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote: > At 10:40 2003-04-02, you wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 07:30:31AM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > >[ To CGF: In partial fulfillment of my assigned penance for suggesting > > >I would cease to use Cygwin in

Re: cygwin license

Randall R Schulz wrote: Good answer. You've earned the star. Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal parade a slave would ride in the chariot with him. As the cheering throng tossed flowers in the hero's path, the slave woul

Re: cygwin license

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Charles Wilson wrote: > Randall R Schulz wrote: > > >> Good answer. You've earned the star. > > > > Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. > > And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal > parade a slave would ride in the chariot with him. As the chee

Re: cygwin license

At 20:21 2003-04-02, you wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote: Good answer. You've earned the star. Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal parade a slave would ride in the chariot with him. As the cheering throng tossed flowers in t

Re: cygwin license

On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:33:19PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: >At 20:21 2003-04-02, you wrote: >>Randall R Schulz wrote: >> Good answer. You've earned the star. >>> >>>Wow. Praise from Caesar. I'm in heaven. >> >>And, as in the days of Rome, during the conquering hero's triumphal >>parade

Cygwin License ( Query )

running on cygwin shell and will not even use any of the standard cygwin tools like - gcc, gas,ld.     Do we need a commercial cygwin license or 'proprietary-use license' for such a use of cygwin? If yes pls send me the terms for this license.    I will be very thankful to u,if u can

Cygwin license compliance

Greetings list, A brief question about free use of cygwin in a commercial environment. If I should direct this question elsewhere, I'll be grateful to learn where. I've searched the web and the FAQs but have not found a specific answer to this specific question. I've also telephoned the commer

Re: cygwin license

http://cygwin.com Info wrote: > is cygwin GPL? is it free or not? How do i get it? > -- > WWW.XGFORCE.COM - > The Leader in System Clustering > and Enterprise Firewall/VPN solution. > -- > > > -- >

Re: About Cygwin license

At 03:44 AM 12/11/2003, Armo Super you wrote: >Hello > >What do you think about next situation? > >I have made an software, that I'm going to sell. >My software uses PostgreSql database system, witch is >distributed under BSD license. >If I want to get PostgreSql run in Windows >environment, I need

Re: About Cygwin license

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Armo Super wrote: > Hello > > What do you think about next situation? > > I have made an software, that I'm going to sell. > My software uses PostgreSql database system, witch is > distributed under BSD license. > If I want to get PostgreSql run in Windows > environment, I nee

RE: About Cygwin license

Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski > Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as > "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, connecting with a > proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon on Linux doesn't make the > client GPL'd (AFAIK). No

RE: About Cygwin license

At 09:46 AM 12/11/2003, Hughes, Bill you wrote: >Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski >> Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as >> "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, connecting with a >> proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon o

RE: About Cygwin license

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as > > "linking" (which is what the GPL covers). After all, connecting with a > > proprietary ssh client to a GPL'd ssh daemon on

RE: About Cygwin license

Larry's right. Die, thread, die! Igor On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: > > > Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski > > > Common sense dictates that socket connections cannot be thought of as > > > "linking" (which is

RE: About Cygwin license

to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf | Of Igor Pechtchanski | Sent: 11 December 2003 15:08 | To: Hughes, Bill | Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: RE: About Cygwin license | | On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Hughes, Bill wrote: | | > Sent: 11 December 2003 14:28 From: Igor Pechtchanski | > > Common sense

Re: About Cygwin license

On Dec 11 09:59, Larry Hall wrote: > Also, as > points out, it doesn't matter what license the software distributed with > Cygwin is. If it uses cygwin1.dll, which *is* GPL'd, it's GPL'd. *Sic*, no. Read again under *** Note ***. Basically, if the applicatio

RE: About Cygwin license

d reading and acronym translation > which you seem to require. I think I'll retire to the safety of Bochs > for now. . . > Kevin. > > | -Original Message- > | From: cygwin-ownercygwin.com > | [mailto:cygwin-ownercygwin.com]On Behalf Of Igor Pechtchanski > | Sent: 11 Decembe

Re: About Cygwin license

At 11:00 AM 12/11/2003, Corinna Vinschen you wrote: >On Dec 11 09:59, Larry Hall wrote: >> Also, as >> points out, it doesn't matter what license the software distributed with >> Cygwin is. If it uses cygwin1.dll, which *is* GPL'd, it's GPL'd. > >*Sic*, no. Re

Re: About cygwin license

On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 08:44:51AM +, Armo Super wrote: >Hello > >What do you think about next situation? > >I have made an software, that I'm going to sell. >My software uses PostgreSql database system, witch is >distributed under BSD license. >If I want to get PostgreSql run in Windows >envir

Question about Cygwin License

I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. As I do not want to publish my source code, I know I need a "breakout" license from RedHat. I am not changing cygwin, I am simply using the cygwin.dll to get a Unix based system to run under Windows. Has anyone purchased a breakout license? I wa

Question about Cygwin license

Can standard GPL v2 code be included in Cygwin? What if I look at how that code does something and then write my own implementation? What if the two implementations are very similar? What if I tell someone else on the mailing list how to do it? Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/m

RE: Cygwin License ( Query )

I think http://cygwin.com/licensing.html should answer your basic questions. Larry Original Message: - From: Sajad Bashir Qadri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:35:05 +0530 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cygwin License ( Query ) Hi, We have a software that

Re: cygwin license compliance

On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 01:54:16PM -0400, E. Westbrook wrote: >Greetings list, > >A brief question about free use of cygwin in a commercial environment. > >If I should direct this question elsewhere, I'll be grateful to learn >where. I've searched the web and the FAQs but have not found a >specif

Tricky cygwin license question

Hi, I have a few questions about Cygwin licensing, and the last one I think is kind of tricky. I run a software distribution system in Lucent that automatically distributes hundreds of tools, mostly open source tools but also some internal proprietary tools. The system includes a remote-compile

Re: Question about Cygwin License

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:51:44PM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: > I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. > > As I do not want to publish my source code, I know I need a "breakout" > license from RedHat. > > I am not changing cygwin, I am simply using the cygwin.dll to get a Unix > based sy

Re: Question about Cygwin License

Cary Lewis wrote: I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. As I do not want to publish my source code, I know I need a "breakout" license from RedHat. I am not changing cygwin, I am simply using the cygwin.dll to get a Unix based system to run under Windows. Has anyone purchased a break

Re: Question about Cygwin License

> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "Re: Question about Cygwin License" > * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:13:16 +0200 > * Honorable Marcel Telka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:51:44PM -0400, Cary Lewi

Re: Question about Cygwin License

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: > > * Honorable Marcel Telka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:51:44PM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: > > > I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. > > > > > > As I do not want to publish my source code,

Re: Question about cygwin License

looking for cygwin alternatives -- which would certainly be off-topic for this mailing list? If it's the latter lets stop the discussion now. Sure, we provide lots of free services to the community but providing a forum for finding competitors isn't one of them. FWIW, if I were you, an

Re: Question about Cygwin License

Marcel Telka wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 06:46:03PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: * Honorable Marcel Telka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 05:51:44PM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. As I do not want to publish my source code, I kno

cygwin license with windows apps?

Greetings, Seeing all the postings about cygwin license, I have one question about the licensing as it relates to using cygwin and gcc to build a windows app. If you use gcc in the cygwin environment to build a windows app and link against the windows dll's (using -mnocygwin option), does

Re: Question about Cygwin License

Bill - Original Message - From: "Cary Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 5:51 PM Subject: Question about Cygwin License > I want to use cygwin with a proprietary system. > > As I do n

Re: Question about cygwin License

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 05:36:03PM -0400, Bill C. Riemers wrote: >Depending on the country you are distributing in, so long as you don't >actually distribute the cygwin.dll with your application, this may be >classified as "Fair Use". You'll have to consultant an attorney as "Fair >use" varies bot

Re: Question about Cygwin license

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 10:22:01PM -, Chris January wrote: > Can standard GPL v2 code be included in Cygwin? No. It's incompatible with the Cygwin license. > What if I look at how that code does something and then write my own > implementation? What if the two implementa

RE: cygwin License related Query....

ember 17, 2002 3:26 AM To: Sajad Bashir Qadri Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; partha dhar; Dakshinamoorthy Venkataraman Subject: Re: cygwin License related Query On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:41:00PM +0530, Sajad Bashir Qadri wrote: >We have a software that runs on Windows platform .The software is a >

Re: cygwin License related Query....

y, December 17, 2002 3:26 AM >To: Sajad Bashir Qadri >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; partha dhar; Dakshinamoorthy Venkataraman >Subject: Re: cygwin License related Query > >On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:41:00PM +0530, Sajad Bashir Qadri wrote: >>We have a software that runs on Windows platform .The so

Re: cygwin License related Query....

Christopher Faylor wrote: Btw, I was trying to move this discussion off of the public list because it probably isn't of much interest to people there. Well, .. The Red Hat Cygwin Product pages are marvelously content-free when it comes to cost and content (i.e. which version) information. O

Re: cygwin License related Query....

If you are distributing cygwin1.dll and any of the executables that are directly associated with it (mount.exe, umount.exe, cygcheck.exe, ps.exe, kill.exe, cygpath.exe) then you must adhere to the GPL. That means that you have to make sources available to your customers. The fact that you haven't

Re: cygwin License related Query....

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 01:39:57PM -0600, Gary Van Sickle wrote: >>If you are distributing cygwin1.dll and any of the executables that are >>directly associated with it (mount.exe, umount.exe, cygcheck.exe, ps.exe, >>kill.exe, cygpath.exe) then you must adhere to the GPL. That means that >>you hav

Re: cygwin License related Query....

On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 11:26:27AM -0800, Shankar Unni wrote: >Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Btw, I was trying to move this discussion off of the public list because >>it probably isn't of much interest to people there. > >Well, .. > >The Red Hat Cygwin Product pages are marvelously content-free wh

RE: cygwin License related Query....

> >Well, perhaps, but I think those two paragraphs are the clearest and > >most concise "layman's terms" explanation of Cygwin licensing I've read > >to date. All it needs is a "No, a link to the Cygwin site won't cut it" > >paragraph and I'd say it would make a good FAQ. > > My response was tailo

Re: Tricky cygwin license question

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:43:14PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: >Hi, > >I have a few questions about Cygwin licensing, and the last one I think is >kind of tricky. > >I run a software distribution system in Lucent that automatically >distributes hundreds of tools, mostly open source tools but also s

Re: Tricky cygwin license question

On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 04:58:49PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 12:43:14PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote: > >Hi, > > > >I have a few questions about Cygwin licensing, and the last one I think is > >kind of tricky. > > > >I run a software distribution system in Lucent that

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "cygwin license with windows apps?" > * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:19:59 -0500 > * Honorable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > If you use gcc in the cygwin environment to build a windows > app and

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 10:33:09AM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * On the subject of "cygwin license with windows apps?" >> * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 09:19:59 -0500 >> * Honorable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>

RE: cygwin license with windows apps?

Some more questions: Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause a program to be covered by the GPL? If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't have any Programs

RE: cygwin license with windows apps?

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > Some more questions: > > Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? Because the GPL is what's known as a "viral" license, infecting anything that makes use if it. > On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' librar

RE: cygwin license with windows apps?

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Elfyn McBratney wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Cary Lewis wrote: > > > Some more questions: > > > > Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? > > Because the GPL is what's known as a "viral" license, infecting anything that > makes use if it. ^^

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * On the subject of "RE: cygwin license with windows apps?" > * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:18:41 -0400 > * Honorable Cary Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a prog

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:18:41PM -0400, Cary Lewis wrote: >Some more questions: > >Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? Because that's how the GPL works. From the GNU GPL FAQ: "Linking FOO statically or dynamically with other modules is making a combined wor

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:35:00PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >> * In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> * On the subject of "RE: cygwin license with windows apps?" >> * Sent on Fri, 20 Jun 2003 12:18:41 -0400 >> * Honorable Cary Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: cygwin license with windows apps?

Cary Lewis wrote: > Why is it that linking to the cygwin.dll makes a program covered by GPL? > > On Linux systems, does linking to the open source 'C' libraries, etc. cause > a program to be covered by the GPL? > > If that were true, then wouldn't every program be GPL? Then you couldn't > have a

[PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

The following patch replaces a broken link in : http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/are-free.html with the closest URL I could find in Red Hat's website in reference to the proprietary cygwin licensing terms. feel free to replace it with a better suited link and/or correct it in Red Hat's website

Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

On 01/04/2010 11:12 AM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: The following patch replaces a broken link in : http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/are-free.html with the closest URL I could find in Red Hat's website in reference to the proprietary cygwin licensing terms. feel free to replace it with

Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. Was" Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > On 01/04/2010 11:12 AM, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: >> The following patch replaces a broken link in : >>http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/are-free.html >> with the closest URL I could find in Red Hat's website in reference to the >> proprietary cygwin lic

Re: Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. Was" Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

On 01/04/2010 10:56 PM, Lee Rothstein wrote: Larry, et al, * I'm about to do a review of the Cygwin docs. I'd really like to do that from a single PDF file per doc (FAQs, User Guide, API Guide). How do I get from the SGML (or, XML, or Docbook) source files to a single PDF? > Or, if that's docu

Re: Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. Was" Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

On 04/01/2010 23:05, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: Wouldn't hurt in my opinion. IIRC, the biggest issue in the past has been to get DocBook working under Cygwin, so Linux has been a requirement to get the documentation generated, as a result. But things may have changed here. I have a DocBook SGML

Re: Generating and rendering Cygwin docs. Was" Re: [PATCH] avoid 404 link for propietary cygwin license in userguide

On Jan 5 13:22, Yaakov S wrote: > On 04/01/2010 23:05, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > >Wouldn't hurt in my opinion. IIRC, the biggest issue in the past has > >been to get DocBook working under Cygwin, so Linux has been a > >requirement to get the documentation generated, as a result. But > >things m