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

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> From: dev...@li...
> [mailto:dev...@li...]On Behalf Of Piotr
> Likus
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 3:46 PM
> To: dev...@li...
> Subject: [Dev-C++] Dev-Cpp for Linux is GNU ?
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>
> 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 ?
>
> Regards,
> Piotr
>
The Windows version is released under the GNU GPL too. I believe you are
misinterpreting the above section, 1b. Any program you DERIVE from or that
CONTAINS code from Dev-C++ must be released under the GNU GPL too. NOT
programs you create with it. (Yes, you are free to change and redistribute
GPL'd programs, just credit the original work to the original authors.)

Do you see the difference? In one scenerio you are stealing someone else's
code, in the other you are using it as a tool to create your own.

Ken Bradford
Alpha II Service, Inc.
(614)868-5033