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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	"Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Fri, 24 Apr 1998 12:25:41 +0000
MIME-Version:	1.0
Subject:	Re: JPTUI-type library for Linux?
In-reply-to:	<199804241457.QAA54730@ieva06.lanet.lv>
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"Andris Pavenis" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote:
> > "Andris Pavenis (LU Astro.)" <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Apr 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> > > 
> > > Only one problem. RHIDE sources does not contain TVision sources due to
> > > to copying restrictions set by Borland but only patches (Borland reserved 
> > > right to be sole distributor of TVision).
> > > 
> > > The problem is that looks that TVision sources has disappeared from 
> > > ftp.borland.com
> > 
> > What?! Are you sure they don't have the file in other place? This people is 
> > really stupid, I don't understand why they free some thing but they don't want 
> > the people distribute it.
> > 
> 
> We'll wen I detected this, I connected with FAR 1.51 to ftp.borlandc.com
> and told far to search for something similar in all available directories
> but there were no success. I don't want to repeat this once more now
> but FTPSEARCH reports following files which contains 'tv' in ftp.borland.com
> (I removed unneeded information)
> 
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/tvalt.zip
> /pub/pascal/devsupport/general/tvbgi.zip
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/tvfix.zip
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/tvalid.zip
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/tvexit.zip
> /pub/pascal/devsupport/general/tvgr70.zip
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/tvmemo.zip
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/dos/getvect.zip
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/tvsample.zip
> /pub/pascal/devsupport/general/tvscroll.zip
> /pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/tvserial.zip
> 
> Let's hope that is ommission and when somebody will complain
> they'll put the archive back (I haven't sent anything)
> 
> One more note. There were nothing told in archive about what is permitted 
> for user when Borland released sources even that they don't want for
> others to distribute them.

Yes, the license doesn't say you can't distribute it, but the people at Borland 
says that you can't distribute it. Even when they left the sources on the web 
for more than one year. 

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