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Am i allowed to upload/add some/all of the following SObjs in a program/package on OS4Depot as "addon" to a certain program or is this prohibited?

libSDL-1.2.so
libvorbisfile.so
libvorbis.so
libogg.so
libFLAC.so
libpng15.so.15
libtheoradec.so
libfaad.so
libz.so
libstdc++.so
libgcc.so
libc.so

Thank you very much

Raziel wrote:Am i allowed to upload/add some/all of the following SObjs in a program/package on OS4Depot as "addon" to a certain program or is this prohibited?

I don't know whether it is allowed or not, but in my opinion you shouldn't do it anyway.

If you do, people downloading your package some time in the future may end up installing older versions of libraries on top of newer, as especially .so files do not have any version inside. Apart from that, it is wasting space/bandwidth to include those in every package which uses them.

What I would suggest instead is that you provide a list of requirements in your documentation and, if you want to be really friendly, links to where they (at the time of writing) can be found in their latest version, as well as instructions and/or a script for installing them.

Best regards,

Niels

nbache wrote: If you do, people downloading your package some time in the future may end up installing older versions of libraries on top of newer, as especially .so files do not have any version inside. Apart from that, it is wasting space/bandwidth to include those in every package which uses them.

If sobjs are included with a program they should not be installed into SYS:SObjs but simply installed along with the program. That's the beauty of sobjs that every program can use it's own possibly incompatible version of an sobj (installed locally into PROGDIR:) and they won't interfere with each other unlike with Amiga shared libraries where the first program run "decides" which version is used.

Raziel wrote: libSDL-1.2.so
libvorbisfile.so
libvorbis.so
libogg.so
libFLAC.so
libpng15.so.15
libtheoradec.so
libfaad.so
libz.so
libstdc++.so
libgcc.so
libc.so

I wouldn't include libstdc++, libgcc and libc as they should be included as standard with the OS.

salass00 wrote:That's the beauty of sobjs that every program can use it's own possibly incompatible version of an sobj ...

Beauty? Hmm, I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beholder .

Best regards,

Niels

nbache wrote:

Raziel wrote:Am i allowed to upload/add some/all of the following SObjs in a program/package on OS4Depot as "addon" to a certain program or is this prohibited?

I don't know whether it is allowed or not, but in my opinion you shouldn't do it anyway.

OK, i will wait until a dev explicitely tells me "Yes, you are allowed to" or "No, they are copyrighted"

If you do, people downloading your package some time in the future may end up installing older versions of libraries on top of newer, as especially .so files do not have any version inside. Apart from that, it is wasting space/bandwidth to include those in every package which uses them.

Exactly my POV, thank you for the confirmation

What I would suggest instead is that you provide a list of requirements in your documentation and, if you want to be really friendly, links to where they (at the time of writing) can be found in their latest version, as well as instructions and/or a script for installing them.

I have done the first and offered the second as i perfectly agree with you.
Unfortunately few people think providing the program isn't enough and looking up one or two added dependencies per 2 years is far too much work for them

Thank you very much for your answer

No, you should not copy any without checking the copyright status and licence of every file.