Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/07/08/03:57:35
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Doug Kaufman wrote:
> The problem is the license for WATT-32, the socket library used to build
> the DOS port.
Too bad. I'd have to add a comment about this caveat to the next
release of the FAQ. I thought WATT-32 was Free Software compatible
with GPL/LGPL.
Perhaps the copyright holder might wish to reconsider now, given that
no one is going to develop significant applications for DOS (the mail
cited in your message dates back to 1999, which is 2 years ago). So
any restrictions, real or imaginary, which LGPL might impose on
developers could not be relevant anymore, since the library will
probably be used mainly for porting GNU (i.e. GPL) packages.
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