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Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey)
- To: "cygwin" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
- Subject: Re: Does GPL apply without Cygwin stub? [long and off-topic] (was Re: [ANN] Cygwin DEV survey)
- From: "Suhaib M. Siddiqi" <Ssiddiqi@InspirePharm.Com>
- Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:56:52 -0500
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>>
>>I don't think that is correct. I believe the "commercial compiler"
>>that Suhaib M. Siddiqi is referring to may be the one known as the
>>"Cygnus GNUPro Development Tools" ;-)
>>
>>If I understand things correctly, it *is* possible to get a license
for
>>Cygwin that allows you to link proprietry code which incorporates the
>>Cygwin crt0 file --- you just need to fork over the appropriate amount
of
>>cash to Cygnus to pay for that license.
>
>That's right. As the license holder for cygwin we reserve the right to
>distribute the code under a different licensing agreement.
>
>We do allow our customers to distribute code linked with the DLL under
>other terms than the GPL -- for a fee.
>
>I don't believe that Suhaib is referring to our own products however,
and
>I don't believe that he is referring to a commercial customer of
Cygnus.
>
>cgf
Yes, I am referring to a commercial customer (PGI) who officially
distribute
it as a bundled product:
here is a paragraph from their brochures. I do not accept illegal
software and do not allow others to make illegal copies of my licensed
software.
Suhaib
* PGHPF Workstation
- Command-level F77 compiler
- Command-level F90 compiler
- Command-level HPF compiler
- Supported on Linux/Solaris86/NT
- Full HPF support for multi-processor (SMP) systems
- Threads-based SMP auto-parallelization in F77/F90
- Native directive-based OpenMP parallelization in F77/F90
- SGI C$DOACROSS directive supported in F77/F90
- Byte-swapping unformatted I/O (big-endian to little)
- Executables utilize up to 4 processors
- Cray/DEC/IBM compatibility (including Cray POINTERs)
- PGPROF performance profiler (command-level only on NT)
- PGDBG symbolic debugger (not yet available on NT)
- UNIX-like command environment bundled on NT <---note
this----------------
- Node-locked single-user license
PGHPF Workstation 1 Year Subscription
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