you are referring to Services for Unix (SFU) version "3.5" while i'm referring to SFU version "2.2 - 3.0" or formerly known as "Interix".
the link stating that Interix (presently known as "SFU") is based on old "Cygnus" (presently known as "Cygwin") codes (see the connection?):
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2000-04/msg00151.html
and i've also re-checked my old favorites and the site stating that "SFU is GPL-ed" is no longer on MS site but i kinda found it thru google cached pages.
here's the link: http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:Aj7CzqBHNosJ:www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/howtobuy/default.asp+interix+sfu+gpl&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
i even posted about SFU back in July 2003 http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20030717.091734.5449f86b.html
afaicr, since earlier versions of SFU is GPL-ed you can have a copy of its source code by purchasing the SFU CD from Interix (makers of SFU). maybe MS removed all of the GPL-ed code.
naaala ko kasi, nag print pa ko ng documents just to prove to my boss na GPLed ang SFU but the only problem is that its not free and bundled with CALs. when i was with my previous employer, part of my job decription was to port linux applications to embedded XP. back then, i thought that using SFU (UWin, MKS, DJGPP) would ease my life but i was wrong coz migration is much easier using the much updated, free, and CAL-free cygwin.
ok, SFU 3.5 NFS support is kinda new & cool.
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the last time i've checked i saw the cygwin dll on SFU (iirc) and it has the GPL license.
I don't see any cygwin.dll on SFU. Though i see cygwin.{pl|sh|pm|pod}. I can't install SFU on my desktop winXP home ... so i'm deducing that cygwin on SFU is probably related to perl.
SFU was not derived from cygwin. This guy explains it much better below:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=92838&cid=7976423
"There's a more important architectual difference.
Cygwin is built on top of the Win32 APIs on top of the NT kernel core.
SFU is built straight on top of the core kernel; Win32 API variances (which have caused headaches for the Cygwin implementors of years) are no longer factored in.
Moreover, the core state information (such as process listings and various other things) come straight from the core. It is perfectly possible to send a SIGSTOP or a SIGKILL to Word.exe (a Win32 app) from the SFU universe and watch Word stop dead or die, respectively.
As well as NFS mounting and export capabilities, SFU also supports NIS and can do various user mappings between the Windows and Unix worlds."
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