In a msg of <05 Nov 92>, Steve Madsen writes to All:
>> WE NEED A .TPU TO .PAS convertor. Any brave sole wants to take
>> on this almost impossible task? You will be the best programmer
>> in the world if you can write such a convertor!
-> 1. Personally, I don't want any .TPUs I distribute to be
-> turned into .PAS files. There are all sorts of reasons for this,
-> including a package falling into the shareware category or people
-> who just don't want others to have their source. Whoever writes
-> a TPU2PAS program is going to piss a lot of people off. What
-> kind of incentive will "register and I'll send you the source to
Agreed. I certainly wouldn't distribute anymore of my code if this sort of thing had to come to life. Besides, if you distribute the source code, 99% of the people will never mention where they got it from. Sad, but true.
-> 2. This builds on 1. Some shareware that I've seen has
-> a little disclaimer on it that reads (something like) "it is
-> illegal to disassemble or otherwise reverse engineer this
-> program." If a program you TPU2PAS has this little notice on it,
-> you've broken the license agreement and (I assume) can be sued by
-> the author, provided he finds out about it.
Well, even Borland supplies .TPU's with their package; you must actually BUY the source as a sepparate addition. I honestly don't think that Borland is going to be very pleased about a TPU2PAS converter either, probably the same reason that they won't make one.
