From:	"Andrew R. Gillett" <arganoid AT fatal-design DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Distributing DJGPP
Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 2000 01:06:37 +0100
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My company is planning to release the source code to one of our old games 
via a fan club style entity. I would like to include DJGPP on the CD that 
we will be sending out to members, so that they will be able to use it if 
they do not already have a suitable compiler. I've read the section in 
the FAQ on redistributing DJGPP, but it seems a little ambiguous in two 
places:


1) "Compliance with the Gnu license is therefore all you are legally 
required to consider when you redistribute DJGPP itself"

- I've read the GPL, but it's rather large and hard to follow - what 
would be useful would be a summary of how it applies to the 
redistribution of an unmodified version of DJGPP.


2) "You must redistribute DJGPP as a whole, with all its parts, including 
the sources to utilities and libraries that are part of DJGPP"

- For the purposes of this statement, what does "DJGPP as a whole" mean? 
If I look in the DJGPP directory on simtelnet, does the statement mean I 
have to include everything from v2, v2apps, v2gnu, v2misc, etc? Or could 
I just put enough to be able to compile and link programs on the CD (with 
the appropriate docs, of course) and put a pointer to the DJGPP website 
in a readme file?

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