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From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1990 22:41
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1990 22:41
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In article <ERU.90Oct17183650@tnvsu1.tele.nokia.fi> eru@tnvsu1.tele.nokia.fi (Erkki Ruohtula) writes:
>Borland has an interesting additional condition: (quoting from the Turbo C++
>license)
>"... Also, you may not use a Turbo Language product to create, give away,
>sell, license, or otherwise distribute a competitive compiler or interpreter
>or to substantially duplicate in appearance, functionality or design a Turbo
>Language development system or feature or portion of it (e.g. the DOS extender
>system)..."
This came up a few months ago in another group, and I think someone from
Borland replied that this was unintentional. I think it came from some
boilerplate having been copied from some other license.
--
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.
barmar@think.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,d905abbc8bea340a X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-10-18 15:41:09 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!snorkelwacker!paperboy!think.com!barmar From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Royalties Message-ID: <1990Oct18.224109.22440@Think.COM> Date: 18 Oct 90 22:41:09 GMT References: <HAGERMAN.90Oct13205442@rx7.ece.cmu.edu> <tim.655872961@ggumby> <ERU.90Oct17183650@tnvsu1.tele.nokia.fi> Sender: news@Think.COM Distribution: gnu Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 17 Posted: Thu Oct 18 23:41:09 1990