Date:	Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:21:57 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Robert Whitlock <robertwhitlock AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Copyrights etc.
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Robert Whitlock wrote:

> I read the FAQ on the copyrights, but I didn't quite get it all.

It would help if you could say what's unclear in section 19.1.  I
tried to make it as clear as possible.

> Can somebody give me a straight answer on whether or not I need to
> give credit to somebody when distributing applications made by
> DJGPP, and also using dynamic memory allocation?

If you use one of the functions listed in the FAQ as being under the
BSD copyright, you need to put the blurb in your docs or in the
program itself.  Note that as of v2.02, `malloc' and `qsort' are no
longer the BSD versions, but the rest of functions still are.

I think the FAQ says this explicitly in section 19.1.


> Also, if I do need to, is there a way to get 
> around it? (besides doing something illegal)

What kind of way around it, besides the illegal one, did you have in
mind?  How else can you get around of giving a credit?

I also fail to understand why would someone object to putting a
one-sentence blurb in some README file that goes with the program.
What and how can this possibly hurt?

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