Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] How to decide?

2009-03-15 Thread Sylvain Beucler
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 04:44:57PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote: 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

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] How to decide?

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian Gerhardt
I agree. I will try to deliver our concerns to the maintainer during the review process. On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 08:57 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote: Usually, portable programs rely on an external library that provides this whole GUI backend. For example the GNU FreeDink relies on the SDL

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] How to decide?

2009-03-15 Thread Karl Berry
Usually, portable programs rely on an external library that provides this whole GUI backend. For example the GNU FreeDink relies on the SDL game library So there's no directx code in the freedink sources, right? Sure, that's clearly no problem. I didn't get the impression that was

Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] How to decide?

2009-03-15 Thread Sylvain Beucler
The fact that the proprietary support is shipped within the project rather than through an external library doesn't sound important to me. Isn't it a case of shades of grey rather than black and white? Yes. This depends on context. For access to multimedia abilities it's common to