Thread: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ?
> -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:34 PM > To: Dann Corbit > Cc: Matthew T. O'Connor; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Greg Stark; > PostgreSQL Development > Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ? > > > Dann Corbit writes: > > > > At the risk of stating the obvious: Cygwin is your friend > in exactly > > > this case. > > > > Yes, but how friendly is it? > > What are you asking here? Is it easy to install and use? Yes. You brought it up. > > Cygwin requires a license for commercial use. > > No, it does not. Really? What's this then? http://www.cygwin.com/licensing.html http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/
By the (non-existant) powers vested in me I hereby designate this as "rehash old and fruitless arguments" week. cheers andrew Dann Corbit wrote: > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Peter Eisentraut [mailto:peter_e@gmx.net] >>Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:34 PM >>To: Dann Corbit >>Cc: Matthew T. O'Connor; Christopher Kings-Lynne; Greg Stark; >>PostgreSQL Development >>Subject: RE: [HACKERS] [pgsql-advocacy] Not 7.5, but 8.0 ? >> >> >>Dann Corbit writes: >> >> >> >>>>At the risk of stating the obvious: Cygwin is your friend >>>> >>>> >>in exactly >> >> >>>>this case. >>>> >>>> >>>Yes, but how friendly is it? >>> >>> >>What are you asking here? Is it easy to install and use? Yes. >> >> > >You brought it up. > > > >>>Cygwin requires a license for commercial use. >>> >>> >>No, it does not. >> >> > >Really? > >What's this then? >http://www.cygwin.com/licensing.html >http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/ > > > >
Dann Corbit writes: > > > Cygwin requires a license for commercial use. > > > > No, it does not. > > Really? > > What's this then? > http://www.cygwin.com/licensing.html The Cygwin license, the GPL, specifically says: Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted, ... So "commercial use" is clearly allowed. -- Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net