From: Vinzent Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake? Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 17:59:27 +0100 Organization: JeLlyFish software Lines: 29 Message-ID: <84dem1$b2a$1@news02.btx.dtag.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news02.btx.dtag.de 946486785 11338 777000109768-0001 991229 16:59:45 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT t-online DOT de X-Sender: 777000109768-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/16.534 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Jens Luedicke wrote: >Commercial compilers require a special licence, which allows the >software firms to sell their software legally. Sorry, but that's nonsense. You can sell everything that is compiled with a legal copy of a commercial compiler. That's implied in the license. (Borland has never received and will never receive any money from me except for my own copy of TASM and I surely won't get into jail by selling programs assembled with this. ;-) >If they choose a >GNU Compiler they don't need special licening. At least the compiler should be released under the _L_GPL. For me the "real" GPL looks more strict than the license of a commercial compiler: It requires you to release the source with your programs. Vinzent. -- While most peoples' opinions change, the conviction of their correctness never does.