Re: cygwin for Government Use

2004-04-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:08:49PM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >Christopher Faylor schrieb: >>On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:23:54AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >>>Corinna Vinschen schrieb: when reading http://cygwin.com/licensing.html, you will find that the licensing of Cygwin is pretty clear. >>

Re: cygwin for Government Use

2004-04-01 Thread Reini Urban
Christopher Faylor schrieb: On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:23:54AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: Corinna Vinschen schrieb: when reading http://cygwin.com/licensing.html, you will find that the licensing of Cygwin is pretty clear. Cygwin is Open Source, provided under the GNU Public License. That means ba

Re: cygwin for Government Use

2004-03-31 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 05:23:54AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >Corinna Vinschen schrieb: >>when reading http://cygwin.com/licensing.html, you will find that the >>licensing of Cygwin is pretty clear. >> >>Cygwin is Open Source, provided under the GNU Public License. >> >>That means basically, that a

Re: Cygwin for Government Use

2004-03-31 Thread Reini Urban
Corinna Vinschen schrieb: when reading http://cygwin.com/licensing.html, you will find that the licensing of Cygwin is pretty clear. Cygwin is Open Source, provided under the GNU Public License. That means basically, that all software linked against the Cygwin library is automatically Open Source

Re: Cygwin for Government Use

2004-03-31 Thread Corinna Vinschen
Hi Rick, On Mar 31 08:06, Hanson, Richard Mr CAA wrote: > Greetings, > > I work at an agency for the US Army and in making a software procurement (really, > installation) request for cygwin, a few developers here were surprised to find out > that RedHat charges the government for the use of cyg

Cygwin for Government Use

2004-03-31 Thread Hanson, Richard Mr CAA
Greetings, I work at an agency for the US Army and in making a software procurement (really, installation) request for cygwin, a few developers here were surprised to find out that RedHat charges the government for the use of cygwin. Our IT manager: This software is not free to the Governm