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In article <7hf14c$gdu@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>,
  ronkanen@cc.helsinki.fi (Osmo Ronkanen) wrote:
> In article <7herjv$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.

Except for the fact that some of the RTL code was only supplied in .OBJ
format (FPU emulator, Overlay) and this means all rewritten RTLs contain
the original Borland code!

Robert
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