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In article <7herjv$chm$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Robert AH Prins  <prinsra@williscorroon.com> wrote:
>In article <7he1jr$3s0@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>,
>  ronkanen@cc.helsinki.fi (Osmo Ronkanen) wrote:
>> In article <37394180.14242467@news.zipworld.com.au>,
>> Ian A. White <waiwhite@zipworld.net> wrote:
>> >
>> >This URL has corrected units for BP7.
>>
>> Distributing the units is illegal.
>
>Distributing the SOURCE of the units is illegal, distributing the units
>themselves is a far greyer area:
>

I do not see anything grey in it. Unless Borland has given the right
to distribute then it is illegal. Note that the fact that one can
distribute unit as part of a compiled program does not count.

>For those readers new to this group, Borland made the RTL source of
>TP6/7 available for a fee, and gave it as a bonus with BP7. Norbert
>Juffa completely rewrote the TP6 RTL, and ported most of his changes to
>the BP7 RTL. Programs compiled with either are usually smaller and
>always faster than those using the Borland RTL. He also made "real"
>arithmetic as IEEE compliant as possible.
>
>Both are libraries are available on Garbo,
>
>TP6: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa6/tpl60n19.zip
>BP7: ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa7/bpl70n16.zip
>
>BTW, there is also another one for TP6, by Jim Lemay
>
>ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopa6/sys60a.zip
>
>JLM also produces a commercial (Pentium optimized) version for BP7
>(SpeedPack II), look in DejaNews for references to it, I do not know the
>product.
>
>So, if distributing unit is illegal, why hasn't Borland done anything
>about the above three, or about SP II, where someone is actually making
>money using parts of their code?

If someone rewrites the RTL then it is his code, not Borland's. 

Osmo