Turbo Vision copyrights_(re)

Sun, 1 Jun 1997 20:29:15 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Jan-Jaap van der Heijden:
> 
> This is cut from a message by Robert Hoehne to the DJGPP mailing lists.
> Read and weep ;-(

Is this about Turbo Vision for C or for Pascal?

If it's for C, it would be a catastrophy for RHIDE!

If it's for Pascal, it's still sad, but ...

According to ... hmmm ... Robert Hoehne or Eric Pesik?
> 
> [...]  You may also distribute your own Turbo
> Vision patches and bug-fixes so long as it is limited to your own code.
> However, you may not distribute the Turbo Vision source code without
> permission from Borland.

What we can do is to patch Turbo Vision for use with GPC and to distribute
the patch.  The `GNU patch' program works very reasonably, and 90% of those
who intend to use TV with GPC will be Borland customers who have the TV
source anyway.

> Part of the reason Borland has not released Turbo Vision into the public
> domain is Turbo Vision remains an important and valuable feature of
> Borland's Turbo Pascal 7.0 for DOS, which is currently available from
> Borland.

That's a joke?

Turbo Pascal 7.0 is *dead* because it's no longer supported.
That's one reson why we are working on GPC - a *living* compiler!
What Borland still sells are parts of the corpse ... |~(  

Let us hope that they won't take away RHIDE from us!  And let us work on
something which will make the world forget that TV did ever exist!  :-)

    Peter

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