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:[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?
Probably that your license is not compliant with the GPL. cgf -- 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/
