Re: ddraw.h, dinput.h and dsound.h in Cygwin/MinGW

"Peter Ekberg" <[email protected]> writes:

> The problem here is that the MinGW maintainers will not accept
> LGPL files in what they call the w32api package. Here's a quote
> from Earnie Boyd on the matter:
>
> "Acceptable licenses would be any approve Open Source license
> that don't require announcement, registration, force the user to
> provide their source or otherwise restrict use in proprietary
> software."

Then I'm not sure why the LGPL wouldn't qualify, it doesn't add any
restrictions on the users of the header. Building proprietary software
against LGPL headers is explicitly allowed, and since the rest of
MinGW doesn't use these headers then it wouldn't fall under the LGPL
either. What is the problem you see with the LGPL?

(not that I'm necessarily opposed to relicensing, but if you could use
the LGPL version it would make life easier for everybody)

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
[email protected]