Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Sep 29 15:08:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:54:01PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote:
>I don't think you mean it is saying "you are not allowed to use Cygwin 
>within a company, Cygwin is only for personal or scientific 
>non-commercial research", and I'm happy that I can't see that. :-)

Cygwin is basically GPL-based.  How, exactly, would something like that
satisfy the terms of the GPL?  That would certainly limit your freedom
to use the software.

The main thrust of the non-Red Hat release of Cygwin is to make sure
that anyone who has the binaries can also get the source code.  That
shouldn't be as big a deal within a company as it is for a company which
attempts to sell Cygwin or Cygwin-based applications.

cgf

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