From: Walt Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You can use the alternate library without any licensing, as far as I know.
As far as I know you do not need to license the compiler to run compiled
execs, but (except for using the alternate library) you do, I think, need
to license the library. The library and the compiler are two separate
items.
Walt,
The alternate library is free, but using it requires (a) that compiled REXX
programs must have the source code included in the load module (thereby
adding unnecessary 'bloat' to the load module) and (b) executes the imbedded
source (not the load module) at interpreted (not compiled) speed.
To execute compiled REXX programs at compiled speed, a site has to license
the REXX compiler. Only then are they able to install 'the library', which
executes compiled REXX at true compiled speed. In other words, while the
library and the compiler may be two physically seperate items, you
nevertheless have to license both of them together. And this, I think, is at
the heart of the issue that was raised by the original poster.
Dave Salt
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