[p2p-hackers] amicima MFP and crypto upgrades

[coderman]

On 12/18/05, Matthew Kaufman <matthew at matthew.at> wrote:
> ... If you want patches rolled back into our distributed code, copyright
> assignment is required since we not only need to try to keep compatibility
> with them (and so we might "patch a patch", and don't want our
> GPL-publication-right of that getting confusing), but we have commercial
> licensees who we need to grant rights to. Exceptions might be made in
> exceptional circumstances where a GPL/non-GPL fork really makes sense.

yeah, that is common and makes sense.  i just hadn't seen this
explicitly stated so i was curious.


> One thing I know will be in the next release as a response to a request, for
> instance, is a change to the 'extern "C"' handling in the headers, to make
> life easier for C++ programmers, particularly on win32 where there's C vs
> C++ system include file issues.

that would be handy; i'd like to use some of this framework in a c++
project in the near future.

thanks for update...