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Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97
- To: Stan Shebs <shebs at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97
- From: "Marty Leisner" <leisner at sdsp dot mc dot xerox dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:48:34 PST
- Cc: jqb at netcom dot com, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
>
> Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 04:45:24 -0800
> From: Jim Balter <jqb@netcom.com>
>
> I was not referring to Cygnus' philosophy in general, only their
> philosophy towards FREE software. Placing free software under
> both the GPL and under a restricted-distribution license is a definite
> deviation.
>
>
Actually, this approach makes a lot of sense. Patrick Powell is doing
it with LPRng...
Most companies shy away from GPL. Saying "I'll pay for the privalege
not to have post source" is fine (in my book).
--
marty
leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
Member of the League for Programming Freedom
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