From:	John David Doty <doty+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Allegro Future
Date:	Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:25:35 -0500
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.msdos.djgpp: 16-Nov-96 Allegro Future by
Benjamin D Chambers AT juno 
>Well, here's my two cents worth...
> 
>Allegro is Shawn's.  While he lets you do what you want with it, I take
>it as a 'professional courtesy', if you will, to leave his work alone. 
>Sure, I'm writing functions that build on it, even 'fixed' versions of
>some of his functions - but they are in a separate package, not Allegro. 
>If he wishes to put my functions in, that's up to him.  If you like
>Allegro so much, and think it's worth that much, then instead of guessing
>just write him a letter.
>Yes, REAL PAPER.  It does still exist (gasp???).
>Anyways, I thought I saw a post saying he'll be back soon, so he'll be
>able to solve this himself.

Yes, I agree whole-heartedly.  Just because the source is distributed
for free, doesn't mean that the entire package can just be taken over by
someone else.  If you want, you can create a library called MyAllegro or
something which you can say was "based on Allegro 2.1", but please,
don't modify Allegro and then re-release it AS Allegro, especially
without Shawn's permission.

John
 
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