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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 12:13 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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? ----- Elwood Downey, President/CEO, Clear Sky Institute Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.ClearSkyInstitute.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
