[TriLUG] borland

[Christopher Knowles]

On Thursday 17 January 2002 12:26 pm, Jonathan Magid wrote:
> On 17 Jan 2002, Andrew C. Oliver wrote:
> > I will continue using Borland products in the future where there are no
> > adequate *free* alternatives.  (BTW I prefer non-GPL *free* where
> > possible since GPL actually imposes more restrictions on me then other
> > *free* licenses -- like making non *free* stuff with it ;-D  *puts on
> > his flame proof jacket*)
>
> Urgh. I know I know better than to enter a possible GPL/BSD license
> flamewar. But I just can't help myself.
>
> I don't want to argue whether either the GPL or BSD/X11/Apache licenses
> are "truely free", as that this flamewar is the "Serbonian bog" into which
> whole armies of hackers have fallen into without a trace.
>
> But I do want to correct the impression that your statement might leave,
> which is that you can't write non-GPL (or even proprietary) software with
> GPL'd tools. You can write proprietary software with gcc/g++ or perl or
> with flex/bison, etc. Pretty much any GPL'd software tool is usable on any
> sort of project. The GPL only prevents you from distributing code under
> that license as proprietary code, or *including that code in your own
> proprietary software*.
>
> cheers,
> jem.

However, I believe that Andrew was probably referring to the open edition of 
Kylix.  Kylix is not GPL'd, but the OE requires any software written in it to 
be released under the GPL.  Actually an odd kind of restriction.  (We won't 
release our source, but you have to...)

CJK