EQMOD & OPENSOURCE

The Eqmod Project encourages the development of  free and opensource software as we believe this provides the best basis for the Project to continue to develop. Developers however retain the right to withold source if they think it appropriate to protect their interests.  As a consequence whilst the vast majority of EQMOD software comes under the umbrella of opensource there may be a few components that fdont. This said all EQMOD Project deliverables, open source or not, are  free to distribute.

Mount Control dll
The software structure is such that the low level communications to the mount are enacpsulated within a dll which provides acts as a more genric API for mount control. The interfaces provided by the dll form a published part of the EQMOD project. By using this structure dfferent mount types can be supported by a common ASCOM driver simply by providing different dlls.

Currently the Synta EQ mount protocol has not been published by Synta and accordingly the dll provided as part of the EQMOD project to support  those mounts is not opensource.