Commercial Licensing

[David Essex]

Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> wrote:

>BFD, gas, ld, the binutils, are all under the GPL
>and always have been.  Any contributions you or anybody chooses to
>make will be made under the GPL, will require a copyright assignment
>to the Free Software Foundation, and will be included in future
>binutils net releases for anybody to use.
>
>The commercial licensing stuff applies only to the gnu win32 library
>itself, which is copyrighted by Cygnus.  It does not apply to the
>binutils.
Commercial licensing ?
The cygnus gnu-win32 web page says that this is free software.
If win32 library is part of gnu why do you need a commercial license ?
Could some one expand on this ? 

David


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