From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Feb 15 13:43:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA14819 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 13:43:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA14810 for ; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 13:43:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id XAA08122; Sat, 15 Feb 1997 23:43:39 +0200 (EET) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 23:43:38 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Terry Lambert cc: Dave Cornejo , jb@cimlogic.com.au, rb@gid.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MIME applications for FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199702141752.KAA03110@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Feb 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > What are the licence restrictions on that source and things derived > > > from it? > > > > WordPad is a demo program for the "power" of MFC - so you'd have to > > port MFC to whatever to get it running. I think that they also supply > > those on the 4.2 CD (I don't have mine here so can't check) but I'd > > expect that all those sources are meant for reference use by licensees > > of VC++ only... > > You're permitted to use MFC on other platforms, but you must have a > copy of VC++ for each platform. > > You are permitted to use and redistribute the code, so long as you > make "significant" improvement to it. > > I'm betting you won't be able to get away with distributing the > sources, no matter how much you improve it, though there is nothing > that actually says you can't (most likely, they will redefine > "significant", as necessary, to prevent you from doing so). Well, could there be any more significat change (other than completele and utterly changing it to something another) than chaning it to work in another windowing environment? Sander > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >