WinCE for the DC homebrew maybe legal

[Darksaviour69]

Post at http://www.dciberia.net

Microsoft, in a clear attempt to take advantage of the benefits of the community Open Source, has created the initiative "Shared Source", that allows the independent programmers to accede to the source code of some of its products in order that they improve it and they modify to his taste, yielding in return the right to use it and to distribute it if and single if it is for noncommercial use.

does this mean that WinCE apps are now legal? well there is more to it Ron explained to me

We cant use the Katana / Kamui libs because are property of Sega, but with Win CE 2.1 and DirectX6 we dont have too

[Wally]

Well why not port it to PSP now!

[MetaFox]

#1: WindowsCE has been open source for years now.

#2: DCiberia's method requires the use of the old CELoader program from boob! This loader requires the WindowsCE library to be present in order to run on the Dreamcast.

So, in essence - all the information in this post has been known for years, and hence is not news. As such, I've moved it to the Dreamcast Gaming, Emulation, and Homebrew forum.

[Darksaviour69]

but is it legal?

[MetaFox]

but is it legal?

It's legal to make games and distribute the binary with Windows CE (and has been for several years). However, you can't distribute the library, as the open source Windows CE was meant for embedded systems (ie: those with the Windows CE library built in).

As the library isn't imbedded into the Dreamcast's internal chips, the ability to distribute the binary is pretty useless.

[Darksaviour69]

ok i understand

[Darksaviour69]

ron pointed me to this, its over my head, but he still thinks its all legal

http://msdn.microsoft.com/embedded/u...e/default.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/s...WindowsCE.mspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...sourcecode.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...daplatform.asp

[NoQuarter]

microsoft supports open source,wow?

[ron]

Thx by posting the links !!!!

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

Best Wishes

[Eric]

Alright i want to hear more about this and this means? Can we use the operating system or something?