On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 5:16 AM, Attila Lendvai attila.lendvai@gmail.comwrote:
Great. But I think that I need to clarify this point first. The license
of
MKCL is GNU LGPL v3 as stated in the Copyright file of the MKCL source
code
base directory. There are a few exceptions to that in the MKCL source
code
but they are for historical reasons and every new piece of work is
expected
to be included under LGPL v3 terms. Therefore, you will have to
acknowledge
your understanding of and agreement with this condition in some formal
way.
(I think an email or a note with a pull request with a mention of it
should
be enough).
i personally reject the whole notion of IP as merely a confused justification for the use of violence against peaceful people... but i can do the necessary steps:
hereby i acknowledge that any contribution i will provide to the MKCL project will fall under MKCL's LGPL v3 licence.
Properly recorded, thanks! Sorry for that, I don't make the laws, I merely live under their rule...
Done. There is now a wiki page https://github.com/jcbeaudoin/MKCL/wiki/Port-to-Android for you to use. Please try to edit it a bit just to make sure there is no permission
issues.
i've edited it, it works. thanks!
Good.
Last, the FFI is the biggest problem. It involves writing code in assembler with a careful study of the Linux ARM ABI used by Android.
how about libffi? can that solve the problem?
I have looked at it more than once along the years and I don't like the bloat it has come to be. So it is not much to my taste. And I expect it will be a major PITA when time comes to push the performance of the FFI as much as I want to do it. Also, I am currently reworking the FFI entirely anyway. I am not against learning from it though.
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