BP Turbo Vision sources_(re)

Sat, 26 Apr 1997 15:58:04 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Jan-Jaap van der Heijden:
> 
> I collected this discussion from comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbvision.
> Somebody claims to have gotten permission from Borland to release the BP
> Tvision sources to the public "as long as they are not sold". GNU Pascal
> is definately the "not for money" category so this may be interesting to
> us.

Not so definitely.  The GPL allows to sell copies of GPC as long as the
clients get all rights the vendor had.

> Having Turbo Vision available would make it much easier to write
> attractive applications, at least for the djgpp/dos port of GPC.

Really.  We must not distribute Turbo Vision "as part of GPC" because
this would restrict distribution of GPC, but it can be in the "contrib"
subdirectory.

> But I do think we should wait and see what happens next....

I agree.  Some official notes from Borland would be good.  (The telephone
call somebody in a NewsGroup spoke about would not be accepted as a
proof in a lawsuit.)  (* And GPC cannot compile Turbo Vision anyway at
the moment. *)

    Peter

  Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer
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