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From: Devin_E_Ben-Hur@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Reason *not* to get new Borland "Turbo" releases
Message-ID: <10882@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Nov 88 21:44:18 GMT
References: <4203@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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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
> Standard Disclaimers Apply

   They don't require you to display the copyright, simply to bear it.
This means the copyright notice must be readably embedded in your binary
image; not that you have to advertise their compiler with your program.
Seems to me that they are making a perfectly reasonable attempt to prevent
you from releasing their library code into the public domain. I hardly
consider this a barrier to fair use of the compiler.

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