Distribution of cygwin (free and commercial)

Andrew Schulman schulman.andrew@epamail.epa.gov
Fri Apr 11 17:46:00 GMT 2008


> Hello all,
> 
> I have read the "FAQ suggestion", and I wanted to open a new thread about
> the possible distribution of cygwin. (I cannot access the old thread)
> 
> Before I start, I want you to check what happened to Eclipse, KDE, Gnome,
> 7-zip and so on. Really many, many people are using the software because it
> is freely available and distributable!
> If you are afraid of commercial distributions, restrict a commercial
> distribution in the license.
> 
> Anyway I think it should be technically possible to give cygwin some start
> parameters there you could easily switch between different locations. (e.g.
> a parameter with a different registry-root or some parameters with the
> needed mount-points.) Have I got it?

Oy.


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