Gene Wirchenko wrote: > At 14:15 2009-10-06, Kevin Cully <[email protected]> wrote: >> Perhaps I'm reading the EULA differently than other people, and no, I'm >> not a lawyer. I read this: >> "[You may not] distribute any Distributable Code that runs on any >> platform other than the Windows platform" >> as meaning that I can't build a Foxpro application to *only* run on >> Linux, or Mac, or BSD with features for a platform other than Windows. >> If my VFP application just so happens to *also* run on Linux [et al.], >> then I'm developing in the spirit of the EULA. > > I am not a lawyer either, but I know English grammar quite well. > > I think your interpretation is inverted. If the Distributable > Code runs on a non-Windows platform, you are violating the EULA. If > your code runs on both Windows and non-Windows platforms, then it > runs on a non-Windows platform, and thus, you would be violating the EULA.
And so (assuming that all VFP-generated executables can be made to run on Linux using WINE with no modifications to the executables), every VFP developer is violating the EULA. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
