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From: dougs@videovax.tv.tek.com (Doug Stevens)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Legality of distributing Borland's BGI files
Summary: Not legal to re-distribute BGI files.
Message-ID: <6362@videovax.tv.tek.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 18:50:17 GMT
References: <500@ceco.ceco.com>
Organization: Tektronix TV Measurement Systems, Beaverton OR
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In article <500@ceco.ceco.com>, sung@ceco.ceco.com (Sung Han) writes:
> 
> If I write a program that uses Borland's graphics BGI interface, and decide to
> distribute it, can I also ship out the corresponding runtime BGI file (e.g.,
> the 'egavga.bgi' file)? 

I formally asked Borland this question when TC 1.5 came out, and the answer
was a definite NO. 

The suggestion at the time was to use BGI2OBJ to change them to object files,
add them to your graphics library, and link the library with your application.
It is legal to ship the application as long as you follow their other guidelines
regarding copyright statements for applications linked to Borland libraries.