From:	"Gunnar Beushausen" <Gunnar AT beushausen DOT wl DOT eunet DOT de>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	How free is DJGPP?
Date:	27 Apr 1997 22:46:43 GMT
Organization:	G.B. Programmentwicklung
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Hi!

I would like to know if DJGPP itself can be distributed for free either
along with free software or commercial software.

I'm asking this, because i need a free distributable compiler for two
things.
One is my free BASIC interpreter GBasic. I think of so many things that
could be implemented into it, that the executable would get much too big
for an interpreter. Also not everybody would use all this stuff, so i want
to create plugins for that interpreter in form of object files. So i would
just distribute my *.o files and the user could link all the stuff he needs
into the exe file.

The second thing would be that i want to create a (commercial) BASIC to C
translator for several BASIC interpreters. My tool would just generate
DJGPP readable C source code out of the BASIC code. But the thing is that
people that are using tools like QBasic normally don't use C compilers like
DJGPP. 

So would it be legal to distribute DJGPP as whole or parts of it along with
my two projects?

Thanks for your help.

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Gunnar Beushausen
GBeushausen AT t-online DOT de
http://www.hof.de/~gbasic

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