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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: ...Reading the fine print of Borland's license
Message-ID: <2570@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 16 Jul 90 18:35:28 GMT
References: <280@unf7.UUCP>
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <280@unf7.UUCP> shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes:
<    "Also, you may not use a Turbo Language product to create, give away,
<    sell, license, or otherwise distribute a competitive compiler or inter-
<    preter..."
<   Does this imply also that you couldn't use Turbo C and TASM as a bootstrap
<development system for a GNU C/C++ port (hypothetically speeking :-))?

I can't resist this one!
You are quite welcome to use Zortech's compilers to create competitive
products. I'd take it as quite a compliment to discover that a competitor
used my compiler for the production version ...