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Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...
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- Subject: Re: Lack of Cygwin contributors? Was: How is textmode/binmode determined ...
- From: "Kendall Bennett" <KendallB at scitechsoft dot com>
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 18:59:04 -0800
- Organization: SciTech Software, Inc.
- References: <200005011535256.SM00160@KENDALLB>; from KendallB@scitechsoft.com on Mon, May 01, 2000 at 03:33:22PM -0800
Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 03:33:22PM -0800, Kendall Bennett wrote:
> >Ian Miller <ian@gingerspice.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >>Ok, I'm an idiot and didn't read the bit about the assignment
> >>form. Sorry!
> >>
> >>http://sourceware.cygnus.com/cygwin/contrib.html
> >
> >So now ask yourself this question: Why does Cygnus require you to
> >assign copyright to them and not the FSF?? So they can sell
> >commercial licensed versions of all code contributed to the Cygwin
> >core library.
>
> That's absolutely right. We own Cygwin. The FSF, as I understand
> it, was actually not interested in the product.
Of course not; they only care about GNU systems and Win32 is not one
of them.
> Was this somehow unclear? I don't see how it could have been.
Clear as a bell to me. But that is what I don't contribute.
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