seperate xfree project on sourceforge

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 06:49:40AM +1100, Matthew Donald wrote:
> >>So, it sounds like you have some immediate licensing issues that
could
> >>cause this project to be stillborn.  How are you going to work
around
> >>the fact that cygwin requires open source?
> >
> >Cygwin only requires the project source to be available.  GPL does
not
> >require compiler source to be available (unless the compiler as
opposed
> >to the project is subject to GPL).  As I made clear in my previous
> >post, there are no suitable open source tools available to code COM
> >objects (unless someone is going to make a MFC or ATL clone for gcc
> >available RSN :-)

They are RN. There is a little porting needed, but not much. Some lists
that may be of interest:
wine,
mingw,
reactos.

(Why reactos you say? Well they have been very active in adding
compatability support to gcc because of their goal - binary
compatability with NT. This support includes fastcall linking and fixes
to windres amongst other older things).



Rob