Re: [Vala] Vala and GLib license

[rastersoft <raster rastersoft com>]

I suspect that Jens talks about creating a "translation layer" that
offers to the unmodified GLib all the system calls that it expects, like
"fopen, printf" and so on.


El 11/07/16 a las 17:42, Aleksandr Palamar escribió:
> Jens, do you mean something like linking GLib to your ownn closed source
> black box library with open API that is using specific Sony/Microsoft API
> inside without revealing those secret internal things to the public?
> On Jul 11, 2016 5:50 PM, "Jens Georg" <mail jensge org> wrote:
>
> Yes. Obviously the two licenses are not compatible then. The only way out
> there
> would be a compatibility layer that translates those runtimes into something
> GLib can live with.
>
>
> Even if that would violate licence from Sony and Microsoft? Obviously,
> > sharing that code with someone who already has license from them to
> > use their API is not a problem at all. But sharing that code with
> > those who don't have such license will put me into trouble with that
> > companies, but even if people will have those sources - they are
> > useless without previous agreement with Sony/Microsoft and their SDK.
> > That's the one of the moments that kind of preventing me to look into
> > Vala more seriously in view of professional game development. I never
> > know where it will end. The thing is - I have bunch of old code that I
> > may to do some refactoring - go from old C code into C++ with bunch of
> > own new and old bicycles or just went with Vala step by step, maybe
> > even ending with helping community in places where I may be useful.
> > But even how much I don't like C++ as the language, at least I know I
> > won't have any license headache later. Vala looks way better in
> > comparison, but the license of it's core runtime... That was the whole
> > point of the subject.
> >
> > On Jul 11, 2016 5:25 PM, "Jens Georg" <mail jensge org> wrote:
> >
> > But If I would need to patch GLib to work on PS4 or XBONE? I doubt
> > > > that
> > > > those platforms will allow me to share usage of their internal
> > > > API. Can I
> > > > keep those patch closed and share them only with people who has
> > > > licenses
> > > > for PS4 and XONE (you aren't able to put that patch in anyway if
> > > > you are
> > > > just standard customer and user of the console and not the
> > > > developer) so
> > > > they would able to use that new code as well, but not with others,
> > > > because
> > > > that may violate license of console platforms.
> > > No. Because you're patching (L)GPL code you would have to grant
> > > access to the modified sources
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