I'm quite out of sync/behind with mail, and had only seen this stuff on
the sge-discuss list.

Rayson Ho <[email protected]> writes:

> Then Andy said that the license of Cygwin is not too compatible with
> Sun's internal license standard, and he told us that the SFU port was
> in the works, and basically that effort was stalled since then.

Thanks for the information, and I don't know where I got the idea it
wouldn't work.

However, I was obviously asleep answering before.  The fundamental
problem with licences is that Cygwin is under the GPL, so you can't link
SISSL code against it (and distribute) without some sort of exception to
the licence -- i.e. paying Red Hat?.  I'm not sure even about
distributing build changes for people to link it themselves.  Presumably
that would be finessed by an autotools build that didn't do anything
Cygwin-specific.  [I know the Cygwin licence is often ignored, and that
there's no problem of principle from linking two pieces of free
software, but...]
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