From:	Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish DOT software AT gmx DOT net>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake?
Date:	Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:59:27 +0100
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Jens Luedicke <jens AT irs-net DOT com> wrote:

>Commercial compilers require a special licence, which allows the
>software firms to sell their software legally.

Sorry, but that's nonsense.

You can sell everything that is compiled with a legal copy of a
commercial compiler. That's implied in the license.

(Borland has never received and will never receive any money from me
except for my own copy of TASM and I surely won't get into jail by
selling programs assembled with this. ;-)

>If they choose a
>GNU Compiler they don't need special licening.

At least the compiler should be released under the _L_GPL.

For me the "real" GPL looks more strict than the license of a
commercial compiler: It requires you to release the source with your
programs.


Vinzent.

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