[Python-Dev] Re: Cygwin (original) (raw)

Kevin Jacobs jacobs@penguin.theopalgroup.com
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 13:03:16 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Jason Tishler wrote:

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:01:27PM -0400, Kevin Jacobs wrote: > The other problem is that you can't use it for commercial applications.

Why? The Cygwin license just requires distributing the source (to cygwin1.dll and the linked applications). By "commercial" do you really mean proprietary? If so, then if you don't need shared extensions then you are OK. If you do, then you are not.

Sorry, I did mean non-open-source and commercial. The closed-source license for Cygwin is several tens of thousands of dollars (I know -- one project I used to work on bought a license and then never used it since I got the MingW version working for them).

-Kevin

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