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Article #3453Re: 32 bit C, again...
From: Stephen B Coy
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:51
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 18:51
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In article <5301@balrog.ctron.com> dj@ctron.com writes: >If you read the docs carefully, you'll note that the royalty applies >ONLY IF YOU DON'T DISTRIBUTE GO32 WITHOUT SOURCES. I strongly >recommend to anyone doing commercial distribution to use stub instead >of go32 and distribute go32 separately WITH sources, AND THEN THERE >ARE NO ROYALTIES. The point is to discourage (but not prevent) >developers from screwing their customers. Remember too that some of the library functions (malloc, free...) are covered by the GNU Copyleft. Once you link with these libraries and sell a copy of the execuatble you are then required by the agreement to make ALL the sources available. You are also prevented from restricting further distribution of the product ie it can then be posted to internet. With this in mind you'd be better off just posting the sources to comp.sources.misc and letter people compile with whatever compiler they have around. >Basically, if you're nice to your customers, I'll be nice to you. >DJ Delorie >dj@ctron.com Stephen Coy coy@ssc-vax.boeing.com Vivid Software, software from soft minds.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!coy From: coy@ssc-vax (Stephen B Coy) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: 32 bit C, again... Message-ID: <5590@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.boeing.com> Date: 30 Sep 92 18:51:59 GMT References: <seksAMK00VIGE8vYFG@andrew.cmu.edu> <5301@balrog.ctron.com> Sender: news@ssc-vax.boeing.com Reply-To: coy@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stephen B Coy) Organization: Boeing Aerospace & Electronics Lines: 26