h.g. muller wrote:
I finally succumbed to persistent pressure to have a look at WinBoard
4.0.2 for JFW,
to fix the broken ICS support. It seems I have succeeded in doing
this. I still want to
apply a patch to make it speak the thinking output in a useful way,
when showThinking
is on (e.g. in analysis mode).
My question now is this:
The version I downloaded from Tim's website (source package) went
accompanied by a
file jfwapi32.dll. It was not clear to me where this file came from,
and what its license
situation is. there was no source code for this file, so I suppose it
is not GPL'd. I could
not find anything about it in the copyright notice included in the
package.
When we are going to distribute my fixed version, would it be allowed
to redistribute
this jfwapi32.dll with it?
I'm not a GPL expert, but I think if you explicitly link with the DLL,
then it must be open source. Maybe it's safe to link at runtime using
LoadLibrary() and GetProcAddress() to access the API calls, particularly
since it is just providing extra accessibility features not needed for
winboard to function.
In any event, I'm not in favor of shipping that DLL. People running the
JAWS software would already have it, so nobody else needs it.
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