Re: [Dev-C++] Question about the Dev-C++ license

Carlo wrote:
> dev-cpp comes with a GPL licensing scheme; this means that you can
> freely use it and redistribute it - together with sorces and a copy of
> the GPL license. Moreover, you can modify it or take pieces of code fro=
m
> it and insert them in a new work or link towards dynamic libraries but,
> according to GPL, the derived work *must* be GPL'd.

Read here:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html

And if you don't use C++, just C, then you are also allowed to make close=
d source=20
applications.
So there is no problem with GCC about licensing. But DirectX is going to =
give you=20
troubles. Search the archives of this mailing list around 7th of Septembe=
r this year and a=20
little before for more mails about this.

> When you use dev-cpp to edit, debug and compile your code you are only
> using a GPL application and, as long as your software does not contain
> pieces of code nor is dinamically linked towards dev-cpp libraries, you
> can release your work with the license you prefer (even a commercial on=
e).

To be precise, there is no such thing: "dev-cpp libraries". Dev-C++ is ON=
LY a frontend, a=20
GUI for GCC, nothing more. Go to http://www.mingw.org for details about t=
he libraries. And=20
you may choose a commercial license, even if you link with MinGW librarie=
s.

So you may develop commercial applications with Dev-C++. Just take into a=
ccount, that=20
DirectX has a different license.

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Greetings,
   Bal=E1zs