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- From: bjaspan@athena.mit.edu (Barry Jaspan)
- Subject: Distributing C Set/2 headers -- license excerpt
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- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 00:25:33 GMT
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- From the IBM C Set/2 License Information Version 1.0 booklet, page 5:
-
- --- snip snip ---
-
- Redistribution Information
- --------------------------
-
- Only the following IBM C Set/2 modules may be copied onto your application
- diskette(s) when your application is dependent on them:
-
- o all header (.H) files
- o all library (.LIB) files
- o all include (.INC) files
-
- Each diskette copy of any of the above modules must be labelled as follows:
-
- Contains IBM C Set/2 Runtime Modules (c) Copyright IBM Corporation 1992. All
- Rights Reserved.
-
- Copies of these modules are provided "AS IS."
-
- The label information is not required for source and object code that is
- integrated into your application program during the normal compilation process.
-
- --- snip snip ---
-
- This seems to answer the question of whether GCC/2 or emx/gcc can use C Set/2
- header files and libraries. The answer appears to be yes.
-
- It does not say that dynamic link (.DLL) files can be distributed; presumably,
- this means that all applications compiled with C Set/2 that use the runtime
- library must be statically linked. It also is very specific about
- distributing the modules on an application diskette. I don't really think
- that IBM means that other means of distribution---tape, CD-ROM, network,
- BBS---are not allowed, but that is a possible interpretation.
-
- DISCLAIMER: I am not a lawyer. Do not consider this message as legal advice.
- I do not know what I am talking about.
-
- --
- Barry Jaspan, bjaspan@mit.edu
-