[Nasm-devel] more messages on site

[Frank K. <fbk...@ne...>]

Kendall says (on the site):

> Also note the contrast with the Cygnus Cygwin project,
> which is GPL but the copyright is owned by Cygnus (aka Red Hat).
> If you contribute to this project, you are required to
> assign copyright to Cygnus. Because of this, Cygnus has the
> rights to sell proprietry licensed versions of Cygwin to
> commercial customers who wish to use it for proprietry
> products that are not GPL'ed. Hence Cygnus has the rights
> to dual license the code as both proprietry and GPL'ed.

Isn't this more-or-less the same deal that the current Nasm licence
tries to arrange? How come it works for Cygwin (or *does* it?), but Nasm
is "dead" (or "void" or "a black hole" or a "waste of time")???

Still hopeful,
Frank