Cygwin and XEphem
Robinow, David
drobinow@dayton.adroit.com
Wed Jan 16 06:31:00 GMT 2002
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-----Original Message-----
From: Elwood C. Downey [mailto:ecdowney@clearskyinstitute.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:13 AM
To: cygwin@cygwin.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??
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