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From: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Reason *not* to get new Borland "Turbo" releases
Keywords: copyright public-domain Borland
Message-ID: <4203@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 3 Nov 88 16:57:39 GMT
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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The latest Turbo releases (C - 2.0, Pascal -5.0, Assembler -1.0)
contain a new clause in the licence agreement.

Was: "Programs that you write using [name of product] may be used, given
away or sold without additional license or fees".

Now: "Programs that you write using [name of product] may be used, given
away or sold without additional license or fees, as long as all copies of 
such programs bear a copyright notice.  By 'copyright notice,' we mean either
your own copyright notice or, if you prefer, the statment, "Created using 
[name of product], Copyright (c) Borland 1988.'"

So if you want to write a program for the public domain, you now have to
give Borland credit for their compiler.  No other compiler I now have
(and I have compilers from ten other companies) place that restriction.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM
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