1. Delphi IDE
- Posted by SUBSCRIBE EUPHORIA Thierry <ANIROM at WANADOO.FR> Jul 05, 2000
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Hello i wanted to know if it was legal to build an interface for EUPHORIA with Delphi ? I know that in microsoft VB license it is clearly written you cannot write programs that compete with any microsoft product. Is it the same with Borland ? The problem with writing an IDE for euphoria with euphoria is that it is not WYSIWYG.
2. Re: Delphi IDE
- Posted by Ben Fosberg <BenFosberg at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> Jul 06, 2000
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Given that Inprise/Borland is very supportive of - in fact, a "sponsor" of - the Delphi Jedi, an Open Source community which produces a number of similar projects, they should have no complaints. In fact, one similar project openly promoted on Borland's own sites is a Delphi-Python interface. (Python, for those who don't know of it, is a free, open source, object-oriented, very high level, interpreted language, claiming among other things, "sequences," and wider cross-platform compatibility than Java, as well as many of the features often requested on this list. The Python community claims about 400,000 users - although one might question that, given that there's no requirement for users to register.) I re-read the Delphi license about a month ago, and (best I can recall) about the only thing you can't do is give away copies of Borland's own code, except for indicated "distributables." OTH, I wouldn't get in too big a sweat over the restrictions in Microsoft's licenses: they don't pay much attention to anyone else's, and their notions of "competition" are _extremely_ peculiar. Unless you're planning to write something with about 50 million lines of code and 20,000 bugs, that purports to do everything from wash the dog to ensure everlasting world peace, and that crashes every few minutes, it probably wouldn't qualify - in a courtroom - as a "competitive product." SUBSCRIBE EUPHORIA Thierry wrote: > Hello i wanted to know if it was legal to build an interface for EUPHORIA > with Delphi ? > I know that in microsoft VB license it is clearly written you cannot write > programs that compete with any microsoft product. > Is it the same with Borland ? > > The problem with writing an IDE for euphoria with euphoria is that it is > not WYSIWYG.