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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