On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, tom ehlert wrote: > >> Neither are most compilers in use for FreeDOS (with the exception of > >> watcom). > > LG> ...and the Borland Museum compilers. > > AFAIR, the Borland museum compilers have a license similar to > 'free for personal use. if you want to distribute compiled programs, > you have to buy a license' > > Unfortunately, I didn't buy a license - so mkeyb.exe is still illegal. > same for emm386, himem, more, .... if they were compiled by me. > > AFAIK, Eric doesn't have a license either; so this applies to his > MODE, also. > > Don't know if Bart has a TC/BC license; else all old kernels (compiled > with TC), are illegal, too. > > ....
"personal use" applies to the compiler itself -- ie. you are not allowed to commercially redistribute that compiler. That's why it's not allowed to be on ibiblio for instance. Compiled programs are a different story. This was clarified by David Intersimone -- I was also confused about this. There are at least two places where he has said this: http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3CCF4B75.D4B81422%40borland.com and in the forum http://threads.borland.com/threads/threads.exe/view?commentid=24952&view=short >From my POV the main issue with these museum compilers is that they are just that. We can't rely on them forever, bugs can be fixed in OpenWatcom, the optimizer can be improved and so on, whereas all Borland 16bit compilers are dead. Bart ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
