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Re: Cygnus Cygwin32 Press Release 1/21/97


Keith Gary Boyce, you wrote:
> 
> Will someone from cygnus define commercial. Does that mean if you say
> something like "If you like send $x to y" that's fine and you don't need a 
> licence. And if you produce binarys and say something like this does that
> mean you are also obligated to share source code for free. 

Cygnus are providing the code under two license: GPL, or commercial.
So "commercial" in this case means anything that is not GPL'ed.

You can of course make your software GPL'ed and still include a note
that says "If you like send $x to y".  However, you must provide source;
you can't produce only binaries.

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