On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:46:17 -0000, George Gwilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> On 24 Feb 2007, at 18:38, Rich Mellor wrote:
>
>>
>>>> I agree with your comment George, however, I wonder how many people
>>>> might
>>>> be interested in working on smsq/e if they could easily compile
>>>> it on a
>>>> non-68020+ environment.  Q-emuLator can run SMSQ/e Gold Card (it
>>>> does
>>>> not
>>>> support 68020+) at least and it could possibly generate sufficient
>>>> interest to persuade people to look at changing some of the other QL
>>>> emulators to support SMSQ/e.
>>>
>>> I also favor a build system that can run on all 68000 systems,
>>> including
>>> all
>>> emulators.
>>> Couldn't GWASL be used insteas of GWASS? I doubt SMSQ/E has any
>>> 68020+
>>> instructions, except for a few to set the cache registers, but
>>> they are
>>> coded as DC.W.
>>>
>>
>> It is not the 68020+ instructions in smsq/e sources that are the
>> problem.
>>
>> Rather it is the fact that GWASL does not support macros.
>
> Does the licence prevent A from sending his changes in SMSQE to B who
> then compiles it and sends the results to B?
>
> George

Not if he is sending it to himself !!

That is the main problem in that unless the person is a reseller (although  
you do not have to pay or fee or anything, just ask), you cannot  
distribute the binary of smsq/e.  You can however distribute a patch  
program to patch in your changes.



-- 
Rich Mellor
RWAP Services
URL:http://www.rwapsoftware.co.uk
URL:http://www.rwapservices.co.uk

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