On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 05:05, Jerry van Dijk wrote: > > Christopher Faylor writes: > > > Could I have some clarification on this? Why would the GPL make it > > impossible to build a cygwin-based release? It seems like gcc is > > licensed under the GPL and cygwin is licensed under the GPL, so... > > No doubt someone will at some point port GNAT to cygwin. Two years ago I > could not, since it required the payment of a license fee for every user. > That may or may not have changed, but it was the situation at the time the > decision had to be made.
It only requires a licence fee IF you are porting proprietary software that you will distribute. And even then, AFAIK the licence is a flat fee. Or are you talking about GNAT needing a licence fee? Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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