Who are the authors of UWIN?
Most of the POSIX library was created David Korn, author of the KornShell at AT&T Research. Portions of the code were developed under contract by Wipro, Ltd, in India. The AST Toolkit which provides most of the UNIX utilities are part of the AST Toolkit developed primarly by Glenn Fowler, David Korn, and Phong Vo of AT&T Research. A few of the utilities were built from GNU or BSD source code. • Are there separate versions of UWIN for different versions of Windows? No, the same UWIN binaries should work with all versions of Windows. • What are the licensing terms for UWIN? Starting with release 4.0, most of UWIN base package is available under the CPL 1.0 license which is an Open Source License approved by the Open Source consortium. The vt100 emulator uses an MIT license, and a few utilities use BSD or GPL licenses. All of these are Open Source license. Earlier versions of UWIN had separate educational and commercial licenses. • Can closed source applications use UWIN? The CPL license
