From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: How free is DJGPP? Date: Sun, 27 Apr 1997 09:59:22 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 33 Message-ID: <3363237A.31D6@SPAMcs.com> References: <01bc535d$711fbaa0$21efe495 AT luzifer> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp102.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Gunnar Beushausen wrote: > > I would like to know if DJGPP itself can be distributed for free either > along with free software or commercial software. Lo and behold, the DJGPP gurus have already anticipated this question. Please examine the DJGPP Frequently Asked Questions list (v2/faq210b.zip from SimTel), chapter 19.2. This can also be read online at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq149.html#Redistribution FYI, distributions of the GNU utilities (compiler, parts of the libraries, etc.) fall under the GNU General Public License (q.v.), found as the file "COPYING" in all GNU distributions. > 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. I may be misunderstanding what you're saying here, but are you trying to mix DJGPP .o files with compiled BASIC programs? If so, you're in for a pretty hefty undertaking: the formats are totally incompatible. OTOH, your idea of a BASIC to C converter is interesting, albeit difficult. ;) -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Plan: To find ANYONE willing to | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | play Descent 2 on DWANGO! | Tagline: | ---------------------------------------------------------------------