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Date:	Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:12:45 -0600
From:	"Elwood C. Downey" <ecdowney AT clearskyinstitute DOT com>
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Subject:	Cygwin and XEphem

Hello Chris,

I am still interested in using Cygwin to build the Windows edition of my 
Astro program, XEphem. When I last approached Cygnus three years ago 
they said this would cost me a one-time buy-out fee of $100,000 because 
XEphem is not GPL. Nuts to that. But now I see that the Red Hat language 
is not so strict. All it says now is:

   "The GPL requires the source to any application built with the Cygwin 
libraries must be distributed with the application."

Now this I can live with. I have always made the source to XEphem 
available for download at no charge. Does this mean I can finally use 
Cygwin without buying the outlandish buy-out license??

BTW: I am writing to you directly because my browser crashes when I try 
to use the web page form to "Contact Sales".

Thanks for the latest scoop,

Elwood

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Elwood Downey, President/CEO, Clear Sky Institute Inc.
ECDowney AT ClearSkyInstitute DOT com, http://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com


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