According to Jan-Jaap van der Heijden:
This is cut from a message by Robert Hoehne to the DJGPP mailing lists. Read and weep ;-(
Is this about Turbo Vision for C or for Pascal?
If it's for C, it would be a catastrophy for RHIDE!
If it's for Pascal, it's still sad, but ...
According to ... hmmm ... Robert Hoehne or Eric Pesik?
[...] You may also distribute your own Turbo Vision patches and bug-fixes so long as it is limited to your own code. However, you may not distribute the Turbo Vision source code without permission from Borland.
What we can do is to patch Turbo Vision for use with GPC and to distribute the patch. The `GNU patch' program works very reasonably, and 90% of those who intend to use TV with GPC will be Borland customers who have the TV source anyway.
Part of the reason Borland has not released Turbo Vision into the public domain is Turbo Vision remains an important and valuable feature of Borland's Turbo Pascal 7.0 for DOS, which is currently available from Borland.
That's a joke?
Turbo Pascal 7.0 is *dead* because it's no longer supported. That's one reson why we are working on GPC - a *living* compiler! What Borland still sells are parts of the corpse ... |~( <shudder>
Let us hope that they won't take away RHIDE from us! And let us work on something which will make the world forget that TV did ever exist! :-)
Peter
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