Not that I've been let know of yet, Ahmidou. It seems you can't even
give windows users a gift unless you install it and click the buttons
for them ;-)
We're loving here at Fluid though, Halfy - so another big thanks.
Cheers,
Alan.
On 6/1/07, Ahmidou Lyazidi <ahmidou.xsi(at)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Did someone had some success to compile it for windows?
Regards
A.
2007/5/31, Philipp Oeser <philipp.oeser(at)liga01.de>:
> Ah, nice info!
> opens up a whole new range of possibilities...
> [note to myself: - (1) plant a tree! (2) build a house! (3) wrap
> blender's magic fluid control! :) ]
>
> thanx again for the effort, halfdan/alan
>
> Philipp
>
> Alan Jones schrieb:
> > I think it was also to do with dynamic vs static linking. Because it's
> > distributed in an unlinked form the user is linking it at runtime.
> > This means the linking is part of use, not distribution - at least
> > that's the impression further research gave.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> > On 5/30/07, Halfdan Ingvarsson < hingvars(at)softimage.com> wrote:
> >> This is based on confusion around the GPL "linking clause" which
> >> applies to works that "derive" from GPL-ed software (ie. the
> >> "derived" software cannot work without linking to a GPL-ed software).
> >>
> >> The linking clause does not apply in this case since XSI doesn't
> >> require the plugin in order to run. So XSI is not a derivative work
> >> of the plugin in that sense.
> >>
> >> This is an important distinction, because otherwise you wouldn't be
> >> able to run opensource apps on windows, since they require windows in
> >> order to work.
> >>
> >> The LGPL removes this requirement and is used for most, if not all,
> >> system libraries on Linux, since closed source applications require
> >> them in order to run on Linux.
> >>
> >> Alan's original impression was that it went both ways, which is not
> >> the case
> >>
> >> (I'm only using Linux here since it represents a mixed GPL/LGPL
> >> environment that closed source applications run on).
> >>
>
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