On Sep 29 20:32, Luke Kendall wrote: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> So, sure, Red Hat *could* do that, but that would mean to take over >> responsibility for something which is in the responsibility of the user >> in the first place. Eventually only a lawyer can make sure you comply, >> but, apart from the responsibility, the job of a lawyer isn't exactly >> for free. So this is a job to redirect to *your* legal department. > > I don't think my four questions asked for legal advice,
In a way, yes. Licensing is dangerous territory. If we claim there's no exception from A and somebody find that exception, it's a sure way to be sued. I, for one, can do without that. > As an engineer, [...] As a lawyer, [...] I'm with you on the engineering side, since I hate to reinvent the wheel same as you do. However, this isn't technical, this is legal and as such I stay away as much as possible. >> As for licenses with commercial exceptions, personally (IANAL, and I'm >> not speaking for Red Hat, nor for the Cygwin community at large, nor did >> I actually search for it) I think there is none in the distro, except >> for the Cygwin license itself. > > I can't see anything in http://cygwin.com/licensing.html that says > Cygwin can't be used for commercial purposes (thank goodness!). Maybe > you meant something else. > >> And that only applies to exceptions from the GPL. You ignored the above sentence, which was the important one. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
