From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Memory amount and PMODE
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:59:59 GMT
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:59:59 GMT
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On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:10:51 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>
>On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
>
>> This has me a bit worried: You mentioned that CWSDPMI r5 can be
>> linked into an application.  Will this have the same viral effect
>> that cygwin.dll has (any app built with CWSDPMI r5 must be GPL'd)?
>> Or will there be a libstdcxx-style exception?
>
>CWSDPMI is already distributed with the same exception as djdevNNN.zip: 
>you are allowed to use the unchanged binary without implying GPL.  Only 
>if you change the sources, your work falls under GPL.
>
>This doesn't change with r5, so I don't see any point in worrying.

Except that the process of linking CWSDPMI r5 into an app _changes_
the binary (otherwise, ld == cat).

>> >and tools needed to rebuild the application with the updated code.
>> 
>> Wouldn't redistributing Borland C++ be copyright infringement?
>
>CWSDPMI distribution doesn't include Borland's tools.

Doesn't the GPL require those who redistribute the software to also
redistribute all tools that are needed to rebuild the software, except
for what comes with the OS?  I don't see Turbo C 2.x in my MS-DOS 6.22
distribution.

>> Or is there some other way to build CWSDPMI?
>
>There's only one way: you need to have Turbo C 2.x or later.

Does Turbo C 2.01 freebeerware from
http://community.borland.com/museum/ work?

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