Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 07 Aug 2011, at 20:53, Jonas Maebe wrote:
They only have to share them with their customers who get the binary (and even
then only for nominal shipping and handling fees). Of course, those customers
are then free to pass them along further, if they want to. And in practice, I
can't imagine what advantage Embarcadero would have by not immediately publicly
sharing any such changes rather than by going through such hoops.
From the horse's mouth:
https://forums.embarcadero.com/message.jspa?messageID=379331#379331
"If there are any changes or fixes we would contribute them, happily. I don't
believe that we made any but it's our policy to contribute back fixes/changes to any
opensource project that we leverage."
Which presumably means they're using the standard command-line
parameters, so potentially a different PPC could be used to generate
code for some other target.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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