Re: Delphi IDE
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.
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