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

Alexandre Julliard wrote:

>"Peter Ekberg" <[email protected]> writes:
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>>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:
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>>"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."
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>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)
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Because headers are source code and using the headers infects my source 
code with GPL by default.

Earnie

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