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- Subject: Re: Borland licences (was about old copies of TP)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.233555.1705@lugb.latrobe.edu.au>
- From: CHEGC@LURE.LATROBE.EDU.AU (CROSS,Graeme)
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 23:35:55 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com's message of Fri, 20 Nov 92 15:51:26 CST
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- In <Fg3JuB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com writes:
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- > dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
- >
- >> There is one part in there that's a little worrisome, though:
- >>
- >> You're allowed to write and compile programs using the Borland libraries and
- >> distribute them (the actual wording is longer), subject to the following
- >> conditions (and from here on it's a verbatim quote):
- >>
- >> The program is not a compiler or development tool, environment product or
- >> library which includes any of the libraries, DLLs or source code included in
- >> this package, nor is the program otherwise a product that is generally
- >> competitive with or a substitute for any Borland Language product.
- >>
- >> End of quote.
- >>
- >> It's that last clause that worries me: lots of programs I write could be
- >> seen as "generally competitive with" Borland Language products.
- >
- > Does SBP have similar clause? If not, develope with borland and distribute
- > sbp.
- >
- > Greg
- >
-
- The rise of totalitarianism continues...
-
- Borland's attitude stinks. Where will Borland draw the line on libraries and
- development tools? Let's leave aside the issue of programs that are "generally
- competitive with or a substitute for any Borland Language product", and just
- look at the first bit of the licence:
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- * Is a programmer's editor a development tool? Disassemblers? What about my
- version control system, or the interpreter system that I wrote in TP and TASM?
- * What happens to products like Object Professional?
- * And what the hell is an environment product: is it a program written by
- Greenpeace? Or are they talking about anything that uses Turbo Vision?
-
- God - Microsoft may make inferior Pascal compilers, but even they don't have
- the fascist attitudes that Borland are beginning to adopt. Stony Brook will be
- laughing all the way to the bank...
- Does anyone know if similar licencing agreements apply to Turbo C++/Borland
- C++, or Turbo Assembler?
-
- I realise that Borland have to cover their butts to some degree, but this is
- over the top: are they trying to make us shift all of our programming efforts
- over to C++ by restricting the hell out of us?
-
- Flames off - but only just...
-
- Graeme Cross chegc@lure.latrobe.edu.au
-
- Today's special sig: As the years go by, Borland go downhill faster & faster...
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