Date: Fri, 26 Dec 1997 11:52:25 -0800 (PST)
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To: qball1723 AT aol DOT com (QBall1723), djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: DJGPP Lincense
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At 11:54  12/24/1997 GMT, QBall1723 wrote:
>>Quick question, I plan on using DJGPP for a local high school programming
>>contest, I think I'm allowed to do this right? I thought I read somewhere
>>under the GNU license you can't do something with the software to make, but
>>I can't remember what it is.... Just want to be fair to all the talented
>>people in the GNU-community....
>I'm sure they'd encourage you!
>
>You can do whatever the heck you want - even experiment with DJGPP's inner
>workings itself (if you get the sources) - just don't pass DJGPP off as your
>own.... and don't pass what you might turn it into off as THEIR stuff....and
>I'm sure you'll be fine.
>
>Unless one of those folks (who frequent this messageboard) tell you different -
>that's the story....
Quite so. If you just compile with DJGPP and link with its library, you are
completely free to do whatever you want. If you borrow things from the
sources, however, your program becomes GPL. This means, in essence, that
when you sell or give the program to someone, you must also give them its
sources, or tell them where to get them for free. You also cannot try to
prevent them from selling or giving it to other people.
Of course, you should credit the DJGPP project, and also anyone whose source
you borrow.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net