Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/16/10:56:03
On Jan 16, 2002 09:30 Robinow, David wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elwood C. Downey [mailto:ecdowney AT clearskyinstitute DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:13 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> 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??
You are quoting the XEphem license back to me. What is your point?
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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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