From: Dave Pearson Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Accessing FoxPRO or dBASE files from DJGPP Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 08:20:37 GMT Organization: Hagbard's World (A Private Internet Host) Sender: usenet AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk Message-ID: References: <199709090429 DOT VAA27671 AT adit DOT ap DOT net> Reply-To: davep AT hagbard DOT demon DOT co DOT uk Lines: 33 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On Tue, 9 Sep 1997 04:29:46 GMT, Nate Eldredge wrote: > >It has a C-language interface, so you can call the database functions > >from a C program. The source code is "freely" available -- that is, if > >you have US$100 to spare for processing. I don't exactly understand > >OnTheNet's distribution policy -- they're willing to part with the source > >(you can't resell the library source or binaries, but anything you make > >is totally unrestricted) but they won't put it up on an FTP site, you > >have to pay the so-called "distribution fee." > > Can they do that? If it's based on GCC, presumably it falls under the GPL. Not so. It converts xBase code into C code and you compile it with a C compiler. Just because you compile something with GCC doesn't mean that it has to fall under the GPL. > Because of that, you should be able to do anything you please with the > source once you get it, including reselling it or putting it up for > ftp. It seems odd that somebody hasn't done this already. Somebody hasn't done this already because it isn't under the GPL. > (rms would be rolling over in his grave, if he were dead.) I doubt it, unless you know otherwise, it's well within the GPL to write a product that uses GCC as the backend compiler. -- Take a look in Hagbard's World: | w3ng - The WWW Norton Guide reader. http://www.acemake.com/hagbard/ | ng2html - The NG to HTML converter. http://www.hagbard.demon.co.uk/ | eg - Norton Guide reader for Linux. Free software, including........| dgscan - DGROUP scanner for Clipper.