WinCE for the DC homebrew maybe legal

[quzar]

Same thing that has been known for years. Since the libraries are Sega AND Microsoft's, the Microsoft open policy on WinCE doesn't apply to them. It's not even clear that we can legally be using the WinCE toolkit for the DC because it is NOT the same as the embedded systems toolkit, and is supposed to require a license in order to be accessed at all. AFAIK it isn't legal for the owner of the license to transfer it, so even if you buy a software set (from a defunct development studio or something), you most likely are NOT buying the right to USE the kit to develop games/apps/whathaveyou for release.

Thx by posting the links !!!!

Being optimistic, it's legal read the licenses please, about WinCE Shared Source.

Best Wishes

Those licenses apply SPECIFICALLY to the WinCE toolkits they offer for download on their site and in the links you pointed to. If you can run that on the Dreamcast go ahead, but it is extremely different from the WinCE for the Dreamcast which is not only incompatible with standard WinCE, but is also OWNED BY SEGA.

But what does it matter? KOS is so much more advanced than WinCE it's ridiculous, and since we don't have access to the sources of the libraries, we wouldn't (even if it wasn't directly against the philosophy of the KOS maintainers) be able to extract any information from it.

Get over it. As long as Katana is off limits, this will be. It will be up to sega to open both of these.

[MetaFox]

Thx by posting the links !!!!

Being optimistic, it's legal read the licenses please, about WinCE Shared Source.

Best Wishes

The shared source is meant for embedded systems. Dreamcast is not an embedded system. You still need the library to distribute the binaries. The compiled WindowsCE library for Dreamcast is not included in the shared source.

[Christuserloeser]

AFAIK it isn't legal for the owner of the license to transfer it, so even if you buy a software set (from a defunct development studio or something), you most likely are NOT buying the right to USE the kit to develop games/apps/whathaveyou for release.

Hm, I think that you are right if it comes to commercial use but I've yet to see something that backs up the theory about this also applying to free software.