On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Yuri Prokushev wrote:
[...] > What were the exact license conditions > for the original Sibyl sources (as set by the former SpeedSoft > owner)? I'm asking so, because I know he made the sources available > for download, but I have never seen any document describing the legal > status of these sources. According to the original sources (can be found for example at http://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/os2/dev/pascal/sibylide.zip ) the files have the following headers: { Sibyl Visual Development Environment Copyright (C) 1995,99 SpeedSoft Germany, All rights reserved. } { Sibyl Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Object-oriented development system. Copyright (C) 1995,99 SpeedSoft GbR, Germany This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. In summary the original copyright holders (SpeedSoft) grant you the right to: - Freely modify and publish the sources provided that your modification is entirely free and you also make the modified source code available to all for free (except a fee for disk/CD production etc). - Adapt the sources to other platforms and make the result available for free. Under this licence you are not allowed to: - Create a commercial product on whatever platform that is based on the whole or parts of the sources covered by the license agreement. The entire program or development environment must also be published under the GNU General Public License as entirely free. - Remove any of the copyright comments in the source files. - Disclosure any content of the source files or use parts of the source files to create commercial products. You always must make available all source files whether modified or not. } This if for the IDE part. I don't know about the RTL and other components... Bye! Doodle -- Doodle ------------------------------------------------------------------- PapirPosta: Kocsis Peter, 5363, Nagyiva'n, O~rsi 2/c -------------------------------------------------------------------- OS/2 --- ----------- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe sibyl end
