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From: dawe@celsius.oz.au (Daniel Wengelin)
Subject: Re: OpenGL bindings for Ada
Date: 16 Mar 1995 21:40:21 GMT
Date: 1995-03-16T21:40:21+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3kab85$70a@brisbane.celsius.oz.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3k524j$a5r@pulsar.sky.net

John Howard (jhoward@solar.sky.net) wrote:

: The IBM Developer's Connection CD #6 for OS/2 contains an OpenGL 
: interface specification.  Would it be illegal if I were to write and 
: distribute an Ada95 library which documented those OpenGL calls?  I need 
: to know in advance of having done so.  My limited understanding is that 
: IBM will provide the licensed OpenGL binding with OS/2 later.  The DevCon CD 
: just gives OS/2 developers a headstart by providing the OpenGL specs.


The interface specs are there to enable people to write
software on top of them, which is exactly what you are going
to do. there is absolutely no way that anyone can publish an
interface spec and having restrictions on writing software
that use that interface.


   Just my 0.02$.


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  reply	other threads:[~1995-03-16 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-02-27  0:13 OpenGL bindings for Ada Chip Richards
1995-02-27  1:49 ` David Weller
1995-03-06 22:48   ` Chip Richards
     [not found] ` <3irb3o$sse@starbase.neosoft.com>
1995-03-10 20:00   ` Paula Womack
1995-03-12 20:53     ` Chip Richards
1995-03-14  1:13       ` Paula Womack
1995-03-14 21:34         ` John Howard
1995-03-16 21:40           ` Daniel Wengelin [this message]
1995-03-19  0:57             ` Robert Dewar
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