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From: dandrews@bilver.uucp (Dave Andrews)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Legality of distributing Borland's BGI files
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.124055.27204@bilver.uucp>
Date: 18 Apr 91 12:40:55 GMT
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In article <1991Apr16.175728.6036@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) writes:
>"Included in the Turbo C diskettes are several support files that contain
>encoded hardware and font information used by the standard graphics library
>(GRAPHICS.LIB).  These files, which can be listed by typing DIR *.CHR and 
>DIR *.BGI, are proprietary to Borland International.  You may use these
>files with the programs you create with Turbo C for your own personal use.
>*** In addition, to the extent the programs you write and compile using the
>Turbo C language compiler make use of these support files, you may distribute
>these support files in combination with such programs, provided that you do
>not use, give away, or sell the support files separately, and all copies
>of such programs bear a copyright notice.  ***"

Now, I've noticed that the stroked fonts in Quattro Pro have upper and
lower case characters, and some other special characters that are NOT
distributed in the fonts with TC.  What I wonder is whether Borland
would object to my linking the QPRO fonts with my TC application and
distributing it.

Or does Borland want me to add my own lowercase characters with the
font editor (yekkah).

Just wondering.

- David Andrews        bilver!dandrews