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From: mesmo@Portia.Stanford.EDU (Chris Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Borland's BGI graphics terminal driver format
Message-ID: <342@Portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 15 Feb 89 07:57:35 GMT
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In article <7156@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> bobc@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Bob Calbridge)
writes:
>
>I would like to know in addition if the .BGI files are allowed to be 
>distributed if you write a program using them for the benefit of others.
>That is, if I write a program for someone using .BGI files, can I give them
>a copy of .BGI files in order to make the program run?


Quoting from the Turbo-C 2.0 (update) manual license statement:

	"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 suppot files, you may distribute these support
	files in combination with such programs, provided you do not 
	use, give away, or sell the support files separately, and all
	copies of such programs bear a copyright notice."


In a previous discussion, it came out that the copyright may be yours, or
Borland's copyright statement accompanying Turbo C.

RTFM!  Just kidding.
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