Re: [freesci-develop] Releases 0.3.4, 0.3.4a, 0.3.4b, 0.6.1 removed due to licencing issues

[Matt]

Hi Christoph

I saw the roll back submission today. Will there be any further changes to the fmopl code in the near future or will it stay as currently is?
Since ScummVM uses the same version as we have right now I would not expect much quality difference, or were there FreeSCI specific changes included in the fmopl code?

I am finishing up the Mac wrapper and was able to create FreeSCI with SDL statically linked. The only way I was able to do this was by changing the configure file myself and replace '--libs' by '--static-libs' (around line 7636 'SDL_LIBS=`$SDL_CONFIG $sdlconf_args --static-libs`').
Am I missing some kind of option to set this in another way or has SDL always be linked dynamically with FreeSCI?

The pro for linking SDL statically is that it reduced the number of dependencies to just one: X11. And X11 is standard shipped with Panther and freely downloadable from the Apple website.
It increased the size somewhat: 3,5 MB instead of 2,5 MB.

First reason to keep SDL inside FreeSCI for Mac is because the unix sound server does not work currently (so no sound if SDL is not included).
Second reason is because (believe it or not) X11&FreeSCI had problems starting on at least one PowerMac (of a friend).
It looked like X11 was trying to get some color support and then just gave up (it hung and after a few moments FreeSCI crashed).
SDL for video worked fine on that machine.

I think have found a Panther specific linking issue with FreeSCI but I want to check something before I send the summary on it.

Matt

On Apr 6, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Christoph Reichenbach wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> as it turns out, the fmopl we're using was never released under the
> terms of the GPL or any compatible licence. As the author did not give
> permission to relicence it on request, we're forced to pull the 0.3.4
> (a/b) and 0.6.1 releases. Replacements should be available soon,
> though our OPL/2 emulation will no longer be quite as accurate. 0.3.3
> and earlier as well as 0.6.0 are not affected.
> Please refrain from distributing these versions, in case you happen
> to have copies of them.
>
>
> Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause,
>
> -- Christoph
>
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