He's right. Anything YOU create in C (or C++ or Perl or whatever) belongs to
YOU, regardless of who wrote the compiler/interpreter. Understand, though,
that any libraries you dynamically link to (or perl modules) of course
aren't your own, and may fall under some other license. Just because you
develop with OSS doesn't mean that you have to produce OSS. I take it you
want to create something to be sold?
For a scripting style language (quick prototyping and useful in cgi), I
recommend perl. There are others, but none with perl's flexibility. There
are even compilers now to turn perl into machine code. How nice, eh?
For programming, take your pick, but Mandrake comes with gcc, which is thier
ANSI compliant C compiler. If you use that, all your C or C++ (use gcc++ for
that) programming books from school will be worth something.
Derek Stark
IT / Linux Admin
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme
Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 6:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Free programming language
On Friday 26 January 2001 08:16, you wrote:
> Hi Linuxians,
>
> I need a list of free programming language and scripting language
available
> for Linux. Free as in for any purpose. Don't want any hanky panky free
> license.
Huh?
If you mean GPL, it is there to prevent ugly little comedies like theft of
someone's college homework program making a commercial killing significant
enough to produce some of the world's richest folks. Perl has two licenses
and you may use either.
The only restriction on the free license is that if you modify/distribute
the
software you obtained under the license, you have to pass on the freedoms to
use, modify, distribute and distribute modified versions to those you
distribute to as well.
If you did a development install of GNU/LM, you have many of the languages
on
your machine. Others are available by searching www.freshmeat.net,
www.google.com, and www.sourceforge.com. In addition, you might want to try
searching
"computer operating systems"
because there are other experimental systems out there--lots of them, that
often have pet languages. Many of those systems and languages are totally
free--uncopyrighted and ready to be exploited, free as in beer, not as in
speech.
Civileme
>
> If anybody have it, can you pass me the list together with where to obtain
> them.
>
> Thanks very much in advance.
>
> Joe
> RLU #186063
