Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms_(re)

Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:27:52 +0100 (WET DST)

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Gordon Irlam wrote:

> 
> The new licensing terms for Cygwin32 permits anyone to make use of Cygwin32
> without adhering to the GPL, and without being required to make their
> sources available, provided that in so doing they are not attempting to
> directly compete with Cygnus.  The reason we decided it was necessary to
> prevent the use of Cygwin32 by companies that are competing directly with
> Cygnus is explained below.
> 
> Cygnus specializes in the provision of development tools for embedded
> systems. Cygnus is responsible for perhaps 80% of all on going GCC
> development, and 95% of all GDB development.  We commercialize our
> development efforts through our GNUPro compiler tool chain.  Other people and
> organizations contribute to, and benefits from our work.
> 

Translating into readable English, I read here: "You are not allowed to
create competing development tools based on cygwin32"

How does this affect other GNU compilers, like GNU Pascal and GNU Fortran?

I created and maintain the (cygwin32 based) win32 port of GNU Pascal.
We will surely try to convert the world to Pascal ;-)

Will it violate the new license terms to use cygwin32?

J.J. van der Heijden

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