Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 12:40:07 -0800 (PST)
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To: Thomas Zamzow <zamzow AT gfai DOT de>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: copyright+licenses
Cc: thozam AT cs DOT tu-berlin DOT de
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At 01:11  1/23/1998 +0100, Thomas Zamzow wrote:
>Hello DJ,
You sent this to the DJGPP mailing list, a mirror of the newsgroup
comp.os.msdos.djgpp. DJ Delorie's address is <dj AT delorie DOT com>, if you need
to contact him. However, read the rest of this post first, I think I may be
able to help.
>I would be glad to get informations about what we have to do
>(right copyright, sell licenses) to use DJGPP whith different libs 
>for research+developement and for commercial programs.
Basically, you don't have to do anything! If you compile with DJGPP's GCC
and link with the standard C and C++ libraries, you may do anything you want
with the program, including sell it. It would be courteous to credit the
DJGPP project in your documentation. If you link with the libgpp.a library,
a set of extension C++ classes, your program falls under GNU's Library
General Public License (LGPL), and you must then distribute source or
linkable object code, and allow users to copy the program freely. But if you
don't, you're fine.

Also see section 19.1 of the DJGPP FAQ. If you don't have it, it may be
found at:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2/faq210b.zip

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net