Re: [Dev-C++] Dev-Cpp for Linux is GNU ?

Greets, Poitr.

> Somewhere in the documentation author of Dev-C++ is claiming that
> Bloodshed Dev-C++ can be used for developing commercial applications.
> It is very OK :) But...
>
> The documentation for Dev-C++ Linux states that this is a GNU project
> and included GNU licence file has a very widely used statement:
>
> > 1b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
> > whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
> > part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
> > parties under the terms of this License.
>
> That means that Linux version is different ? Why ?
> I guess Mingw32 is not implemented on Linux, am I correct ?

I fail to understand what the clause in the license has to do with the Linux
version being different. I haven't ever seen it, though, so maybe I'm
missing something. Isn't it free? Isn't it too distributed under the GNU
GPL?

Or are you talking about the commercial-applications part? If that's the
case, then I don't think there's any conflict. As I understand, when they
talk about works derived from Dev, they mean programs that use, in part or
whole, the source-code or ideas of Dev, not programs that are developed
using the Dev IDE. Also, there is the distinction between IDE and compiler,
and Dev is merely the IDE. The compiler, MinGW32, is an independant project.
It stands for Minimalistic GNU for Win32, and is meant for developing
programs on the Windows32 platform. So, obviously, it is not available on
Linux (except maybe as a cross-compiler, I've never ventured in that Part Of
The World).

Did I understand wrong?

Once again, a Happy New Year to everyone (I'm going to keep saying this for
some time... so try not to get irritated :).

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