From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26831 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2002 18:32:51 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Feb 2002 18:32:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 16291 invoked by alias); 6 Feb 2002 18:32:32 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 4660 Received: (qmail 16278 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2002 18:32:31 -0000 Message-ID: <3C6176A8.1050600@genarts.com> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 13:32:08 -0500 From: Gary Oberbrunner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Zefram CC: Gabor , zsh-users@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: usage of zsh for profit? References: <20020206104852.A74470@vmunix.com> <20020206160524.GB26831@fysh.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Zefram wrote: > Gabor wrote: > >> my company would like to use the NT port of zsh to distribute with >> its product so we can write a reasonable shell script to do some information >> gathering. >> > > There is no problem with this. Zsh is free for all to use (and to > modify, etc.); there is no distinction between commercial and > non-commercial use. See the LICENCE file for details (you should > have received a copy with zsh, it's in the top-level directory of > the source distribution). But it's actually a cygwin program, at least on Windows, right? Aren't all cygwin programs GPLed because of cygwin1.dll? Now as to whether including a GPL program in your commercial product is OK I don't know, IANAL. And perhaps I'm even wrong about the cygwin thing, but AFAIK that's why MinGW was invented -- cygwin licensing problems. -- Gary Oberbrunner