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Date:	Thu, 16 Sep 2004 21:52:18 +0200
From:	Marcel Telka <marcel AT telka DOT sk>
To:	Peter Ekberg <peda AT axentia DOT se>
Cc:	cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject:	Re: DirectX headers
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On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 03:07:23PM +0200, Peter Ekberg wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm working on a project (GGI) that uses DirectX (DirectInput and
> DirectDraw) and would like to be able to compile it without downloading
> the DirectX SDK from Microsoft. So, I tried to get it to work with the
> DirectX headers available in Wine and this was a success after some
> trivial #define games and some reordering.
> 
> Now, my wish is to share this possibility with others and have these
> modified headers (dinput.h and ddraw.h) in the regular cygwin dist.
> However, they are licensed under LGPL, and I don't know if that is a
> problem? Do I have to get the Wine people to relicense them under
> regular GPL?

<cite from="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html">
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this, you must alter all the notices that refer to this License, so
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Regards.

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