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ArachneDevelopment@ya...
Dec 9, 2003 7:32 am
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Well, since there is currently no list for Arachne Development and no well defined means of contributing and sharing code, I have taken the liberty of creating...
Hi Folks, I am signed up for this one, too. I won't be coding (don't speak C), but I will follow developments with interest. Regards, Ron Ron Clarke AUSREG...
Ron Clarke
ariadne@...
Dec 10, 2003 8:24 pm
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Hi David, I am sending this reply via ArachneDevelopment, since I think it is of general interest for code development ... This is a difficult question, mainly...
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:16:35 +1100, da Silva, Joe wrote: Hi David, Joe, ... Don't hold your breath vis. going to 32 bit/DJGPP. Michal Tyc (who knows about...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 11, 2003 3:37 am
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Hi, ... More precisely, one: the graphics library, which we don't even have sources for! Sad, but Arachne is not, in fact, 100% open source, and she cannot be...
Michal H. Tyc
mht@...
Dec 11, 2003 6:04 pm
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I presume HIXLOV.LIB is the graphics library? Your comments about GPL are correct. I suspect SourceForge would reject Arachne because of this issue. OTOH,...
... Right. If you look into it, you'll see references to .ASM source files (which are not included) and to Turbo Assembler 3.1. ... Either SVGAlib or X...
Michal H. Tyc
mht@...
Dec 12, 2003 1:28 pm
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... Yes, they probably would reject it. Also, technically everyone distributing Arachne binaries compiled from GPL'd source and linked to non-compatible...
... Fortunately or not, Arachne is -- in fact -- only _said_ to be GPL'd. There is no copy of the license in the available source distributions (at least there...
Michal H. Tyc
mht@...
Dec 12, 2003 3:46 pm
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... Well, yes, but the one who first said it was Michael Polak himself. ... There isn't any mention of GPL except in few of the sources. But maybe that...
... There is (most probably), but it isn't written -- so it's at least arguable. I'm not a lawyer, though. ... These are related to the files needed for...
Michal H. Tyc
mht@...
Dec 12, 2003 6:06 pm
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... Michal, all: OK, I'll ask Bernie and get back to you. Ray Andrews, Arachne Sanitary Engineering Ltd. Vancouver, Canada...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 12, 2003 11:00 pm
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... Ahhh, now I know what the GGI conditionals in the code were for ... do we still need these conditionals or should I remove them? It would seem to me that...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 12, 2003 11:07 pm
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... Hi Michal, Well, if my cleaned sources are ever used, CLEMENTINE and CLEMTEST are already gone! Isn't that what you and I and Bernie agreed? Ray Andrews, ...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 12, 2003 11:10 pm
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... Whether or not Arachne is *officially* and *formally* GPL or not is a good question, but either way there is no doubt at all that is *IS* 'open source' --...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 12, 2003 11:18 pm
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Hi Ray, ... Exactly... Michal...
Michal H. Tyc
mht@...
Dec 13, 2003 9:06 am
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... Disclaimer: I'm not an expert of any kind of these things. I think GGI is bit heavier due to being a very generic instead of merely means of accessing the...
... Thanks Juha, You certainly know more about this than me! ... Anyway, pending a definitive consensus from the group, I'll just leave both GGI and SVGALIB ...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 14, 2003 4:59 pm
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... If you have "cursor: red on link" enabled. I prefer white (ARACHNE.CFG variable "MouseColors 7 15"). ... Strange, I cannot observe this behavior. My cursor...
Michal H. Tyc
mht@...
Dec 14, 2003 5:33 pm
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This is common behaviour - if you click a link on a web page and then go back (Ctrl-LeftArrow), the mouse cursor is still over the link, however is not...
Well AFAIK, all this stuff is copyright MP, so we aren't violating his "GPL" license over those bits of Arachne he himself hasn't provided source code for. So...
... If the graphics library is his and he also meant it in the GPL-goahead, this could be the case. Hopefully it is, but we can't know for sure until someone...
... Juha, VERY cool! ... How does one upload/download from this list? ... I was hoping that eventualy we'd use L.D.'s ftp site -- that sounds like the way to...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 15, 2003 5:18 am
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... Joe, Michal: Hmmm, Michal dosen't have the 'problem' and Joe says it's normal -- anyway, it bugs me and I think that the wiggle shouldn't be necessary to...
Ray Andrews
randrews@...
Dec 15, 2003 5:22 am
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Hi Ray, Juha, et. al. Re. HIXLOV, I too hope this is Michael's, otherwise his "this is GPL now" license doesn't apply. I've tried to find a copyright string...
... I thought about it. Watcom WDIS does its job quite well. ... Forget it. Glenn McCorkle just told me he has the sources. Glenn has everything ;-) Michal...
Michal H. Tyc
mht@...
Dec 15, 2003 8:09 am
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Oh dear! It depends on what "WATTCP is free for use in applications, meaning you pay no royalties if you incorporate it into your applications. But you may not...
That's good news (earlier, someone mentioned that he didn't;-). Anyway, while we're getting this missing stuff, can we also get 'gif2ikn.apm' (and source, if...
... I thought that he didn't, because if he did, he would publish it ;-) ... Glenn pointed me to: http://www.mail-archive.com/arachne-development@.../ ...
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