at work we are currently porting a commercial Solaris application onto Windows. There are a lot of perl scripts that make calls to unix utilities.
Is it legally possible to redistribute GnuWin32 utilities on the same CD with our commercial application, yet keeping the proprietary software non-gpl? These utilities will be called from perl scripts only.
You get the point - we are trying to escape porting legacy software to true, portable perl.
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Hi all,
at work we are currently porting a commercial Solaris application onto Windows. There are a lot of perl scripts that make calls to unix utilities.
Is it legally possible to redistribute GnuWin32 utilities on the same CD with our commercial application, yet keeping the proprietary software non-gpl? These utilities will be called from perl scripts only.
You get the point - we are trying to escape porting legacy software to true, portable perl.
See http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/license.html.
Thanks!
the license is actually pretty clear. gnuwin32 will not work for us in this case.