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Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97
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- Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97
- From: hans at brandinnovators dot com (Hans Zuidam)
- Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 14:14:28 +0100 (MET)
Hi,
Aside from all the confusion over what license might be in place
on which part, and after lengthy explanations from Cygnus people,
I still feel a little uneasy.
Fact is that Cygnus did not announce a priory that they would place
cygwin32.dll under two different licenses. Given Cygnus' good
reputation in the [L]GPL arena, a lot of people were let to believe
that cygwin32.dll would go with the same license as other GNU
libraries. A lot of non-Cygnus people put a lot time and effort in
getting the wrinkles out of cygwin32.dll, with the idea that one day
there would be a GNU porting library for Win32.
If Cygnus would have been up front and put everything from the start
under either a BSD style copyright or one of their own, the current
fuss would not have been necessary.
Regards,
Hans
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