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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
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To: "Gunnar Beushausen" <Gunnar AT beushausen DOT wl DOT eunet DOT de>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 16:00:24 +0000
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Subject: Re: How free is DJGPP?
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"Gunnar Beushausen" <Gunnar AT beushausen DOT wl DOT eunet DOT de> wrote:
> 
> I would like to know if DJGPP itself can be distributed for free either
> along with free software or commercial software.
DJGPP itself is covered by the GPL license, read it, is with the package. You 
can distribute it but:
1) You can't charge for the soft (DJGPP). But you can for the media.
2) You must provide the sources or a way to get the sources.

> 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.
But here you don't need to distribute DJGPP, or at least you don't need to 
change the distribution. You only need to say to your user how to get DJGPP and 
how to install it.

> 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?
You'll need a CD ;-). According to the licesnse is OK but must be clear that 
you are charging for your BASIC to C translator and that DJGPP can be obtained 
free.

Read the GPL carefully.

Gruesse, SET 
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