Revised Cygwin32 licensing terms

[Marcus G. Daniels]

>>>>> "JP" == Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:

JP> I was hoping we could base a Debian distribution
JP> on it.  Unfortunately, this isn't "free" enough to qualify for
JP> inclusion into the Debian base system

That's an interesting idea.  Remember that Debian-2.0 will be based on
the GNU C Library.  Because of Cygnus' proprietary interests, Cygwin32
uses their inferior `newlib' library, along with the winsup C++
sources.

The thing to do would be to organize the b18 winsup sources into a
GPLed glibc addon, so that this hypothetical Win32 Debian system would
have the exact same interface as the GNU/Linux sibling.


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