OSLib for 8bit machines

[Tony van der Hoff]

Sorry for the delay - been away.

Jonathan Coxhead <jonathan at doves.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
<42B91DB8.70506 at doves.demon.co.uk>

>     It sounds good to me. I deliberately weakened the GPL for OSLib so it
could 
> be used in commercial products (not that this is one).
> 
Hum, yes, the binary can be used in commercial products - not sure that we
extended it to the source code though. Can't see it matters much.

>     The final word is Tony's, though.
> 
> Tom Hughes wrote:
> 
> > In message <42B81AF7.7040701 at brahms.demon.co.uk>
> >         dominic beesley <dominic at brahms.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>I'm currently working on a port of cc65 (and cooperating with the port
> >>of Small-C) to the BBC/Master/Electron.
> >>
> >>Do you have any objections to me sucking the various definitions for
> >>things such as osbyte_* etc which are shared between RISC OS and
> >>MOS. I'd like to include these in the distributions of cc65/small-C
> >>(and use them inside the C library code etc). However these peoducts,
> >>though open source, aren't necessarily compatible with GPL so would it
> >>be ok to re-use the relevant bits with an acknowledgment of OSLib?
> > 
> > 
> > I just received this request - what do people think?
> 

No objections whatsoever. A precedent has already been set by the RISCOSE
(?) project doing something similar - using the OSLib definitions as the
foundations of an emulator.


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