Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/01/16/10:58:32
On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 09:55:04AM -0600, Elwood C. Downey wrote:
>On Jan 16, 2002 09:30 Robinow, David wrote:
>> Terms: This source code is available without charge. You may modify it for
>> your personal use but you may not distribute your changes nor use any
>> portion (original or modified) in other programs without prior permission
>> from us.
>>
>> -----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?
Probably that your license is not compliant with the GPL.
cgf
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