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From: berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Distributing sources that use other's sources (Peter, please read)
Keywords: Amiga Midi stdfile midi.library snerd
Message-ID: <383@stsci>
Date: 31 Jul 88 19:58:38 GMT
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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I've just written a patch editor to use with a KAWAI K1, and I'd like to
distribute it. It's free stuff (ok, well actually it's BEERWARE; if you
use it and like it and happen to see me somewhere you're supposed to buy
me a beer, and if that will never happen, you're supposed to buy somebody
else one and pretend it's me), but it uses Peter da Silva's STDFILE requester
and Bill Barton's midi.library code and I'm a little unsure about how
to distribute sources (binaries aren't a problem).

Would it be OK for me to distribute it with stdfile.lib (an object library
made from stdfile stdfile sources) and the stdfile POSTER (along
with a pointer where to find it)? It's a bit more of a problem with the
midi.library code because there is so much code involved, but the question
is the same.

I hate it when I get sources that I can't build because I'm missing a bunch
of support code.

I'm asking permission from you, Peter, to do the above (I'll call Bill
about it since he's a PLINK person and I'm not).  But I'm also asking
in general what the deal is on this sort of thing.

Thanks.

PS - If anybody wants a copy of this code, send me mail.  If you're not in
a hurry, though, I'm going to send it to the archives folks and you can get
it from there.

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