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

Hello,

Just to rectify something, you can consider that there is *NO* Dev-C++ for 
Linux that exists, the only version that is downloadable is *totally* 
unusable.

Greetings,
Colin Laplace

On Tuesday 31 December 2002 10:25, you wrote:
> 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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