Re: [AD] Cygwin ports

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On June 10, 2002 01:17 am, hstokset@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> George Foot <gfoot@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >First, I don't really see what would be gained by porting the
> >Unix version to cygwin; but I can see that it's useful if the
> >regular mingw32 version works fine with cygwin even without
> >"-mno-cygwin", in case users want to use cygwin features from
> >their own code which also uses Allegro. I think Henrik just
> >said that this works anyway, so that's cool. :)
>
> I did'n say that. Sven said the allegro demo etc. worked without
> -mno-cygwin, not lowlevel allegro code. That requires some work.
>
> >The only licensing implication is for
> >the user who wants to distribute an executable; they'd have to
> >either distribute source or pay the commercial licence fee.
> >That's their "fault" for using cygwin features, it's the bargain
> >they make.
>
> Be sure to DOCUMENT THAT IN BOLD TEXT IN THE README FILE! :o)

Hey! It wouldnt be our fault. It's documented in Cygwin's README file. ;)

I mean come on! doesn't everyone here always read the README and the LICENCE 
file for everything they download? ;D

> Yours sincerely
> -Henrik Stokseth.

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Thomas Fjellstrom
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