But he also asks whether other persons will be allowed to contribute
code for a Direct3D backend when project is hosted on Savannah
Yes, I understand. But who writes the code surely doesn't matter.
Yes, but isn't that always the case when one develops code that has also
support for Win32, Cocoa(MacOS-X GUI) beyond standard C runtime?
Hmm. The cases I'm familiar with are making a cmdline program work on
Windows (usually a few ifdefs), not having a whole GUI backend
(potentially many thousands lines of code) devoted to a nonfree system.
I'm not coming up with any coherent theoretical argument about treating
them differently, though. I suppose some GNU programs do this (maybe
even Emacs does?), in which case I guess it must be acceptable. I don't
know it for a fact, though.
Anyway, I won't argue for it more. If there is any question, we should
probably ask rms.
Thanks,
Karl
