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

Peter Ekberg wrote:

>
>>The Cygwin project, which is where this discussion
>>originated, would not be able to use the w32api library package
>>without such modification because the Cygwin project would require
>>copyright ownership of the L/GPL headers before it could use the
>>package.  That is the reason the  Cygwin package chose to use
>>Newlib instead of GNU version of the C runtime.
>>    
>>
>
>I'm sorry, I don't grasp what is so special about the w32api?
>Please inform me. I mean, the Cygwin project surely does not have
>copyright ownership of everything under L/GPL it distributes.
>When I read http://www.redhat.com/software/cygwin/ I can't see
>how these DirectX headers affect any of the promises. But that
>page does not provide the finer details of the contract, so
>again, please enlighten me.
>  
>
Cygnus now Redhat needs to own the copyright of all L/GPL source so that 
they can change the license at will.  They have a proprietary use 
license that they sell for $.

Earnie

-- 
http://www.mingw.org
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw
https://sourceforge.net/donate/index.php?user_id=15438