Re: Commercial use of cygwin

On 12/12/2020 18:44, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 at 17:27, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> Do the points made here also apply to commercial but open-source use of >> Cygwin? >> >> For extra context, I have an application with bundles parts of Cygwin >> and libraries built against C

Re: Commercial use of cygwin

On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 at 17:27, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: > Do the points made here also apply to commercial but open-source use of > Cygwin? > > For extra context, I have an application with bundles parts of Cygwin > and libraries built against Cygwin. None of the source or binaries is > modifie

Re: Commercial use of cygwin

On 14/11/2020 07:50, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote: > On 14.11.2020 08:22, L A Walsh wrote: >> On 2020/11/12 02:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin copied the whole note: >>> On 12.11.2020 09:42, Antonio Sidoti via Cygwin wrote: >>> I was looking into using Cygwin for commercial use... >>   [27 lines of du

Re: Commercial use of cygwin

On 14.11.2020 08:22, L A Walsh wrote: On 2020/11/12 02:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin copied the whole note: On 12.11.2020 09:42, Antonio Sidoti via Cygwin wrote: I was looking into using Cygwin for commercial use...  [27 lines of duplicate text] in general there is no restriction on usage. Mar

Re: Commercial use of cygwin

On 2020/11/12 02:42, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin copied the whole note: On 12.11.2020 09:42, Antonio Sidoti via Cygwin wrote: I was looking into using Cygwin for commercial use... [27 lines of duplicate text] in general there is no restriction on usage. Marco If you are going to bottom post,

Re: Commercial use of cygwin

On 12.11.2020 09:42, Antonio Sidoti via Cygwin wrote: Hello, I was looking into using Cygwin for commercial use, but I couldn't really understand if that was ok or not. From here and here

Commercial use of cygwin

Hello, I was looking into using Cygwin for commercial use, but I couldn't really understand if that was ok or not. >From here and here , it seems like the basic

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 04:46:32PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote: >On 29/09/2009 10:18, Luke Kendall wrote: >> The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most >> Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how >> that's a license), and some are public domain. >

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On 29/09/2009 10:18, Luke Kendall wrote: The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how that's a license), and some are public domain. That should probably read "X11 license" rather than "X11 copyright"

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:32:06PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: >As an engineer, it seems inefficient if every company that wants to use >Cygwin first has to spend several days/weeks finding all the licenses >across 2000(?) packages, distilling the license files down into a set, >find any that forbid

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 08:54:01PM +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: >I don't think you mean it is saying "you are not allowed to use Cygwin >within a company, Cygwin is only for personal or scientific >non-commercial research", and I'm happy that I can't see that. :-) Cygwin is basically GPL-based. H

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

Stephen Bennett wrote: Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses, and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or exclude? Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company

RE: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

> Um, and assuming that we found a list of packages that had no licenses, > and a list of packages with licenses that we can't accept, is there any > way to supply setup with a pre-defined list of packages to include or > exclude? Or would everyone installing Cygwin at our company have to > read t

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen wrote: 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

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

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 f

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Sep 29 19:18, Luke Kendall wrote: The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how that's a license), and some are public domain. I'm just wondering what's the recommended w

Re: Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

On Sep 29 19:18, Luke Kendall wrote: > The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most > Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how > that's a license), and some are public domain. > > I'm just wondering what's the recommended way to check that u

Four license questions that affect commercial use of Cygwin

The URL http://cygwin.com/licensing.html (in summary) says that most Cygwin software is licensed under GNU GPL, X11 copyright (not sure how that's a license), and some are public domain. I'm just wondering what's the recommended way to check that use of Cygwin internally at a company (no re-di