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Re: Cygwin participation threshold
- To: "Bernard Dautrevaux" <DAUTREVAUX@microprocess.com>, "'DJ Delorie'" <dj@delorie.com>, "Christopher G. Faylor" <cgf@cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Cygwin participation threshold
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:38:28 -0500
- Cc: "cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
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>I wonder if that was not precisely the reason of the lack of
>contributors to cygwin. Let make a supposition: suppose Linus had put
on
>the Linux kernel (the equivalent to cygwin.dll) a copyright saying that
>*any* program run under Linux *must* be distributed in source form
under
>the GPL...
Does the GPL applies to GNUPro, which is distributed for commercial
use?
>I'm quite sure Linux would *not* have been as successful as
>it is, would had *a lot* less contributors, and would certainly *not*
be
>promoted now by little guys like Compaq and HP...
>
>I would like to use cygwin, and I would certainly contribute to cygwin
>(helping to solve the problems that bother me in it), but I'm not
*able*
>to use it (I *have* to restrain to mingw32) because I have to live from
>my work and thus I have to sell my software.
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