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Man I hope you are wrong.. because I was literally planning to build an IDE for Algorand/Python/PyTEAL with this (I know, mentioning Algorand is an automatic do
by ilaksh 5y ago
Man I hope you are wrong.. because I was literally planning to build an IDE for Algorand/Python/PyTEAL with this (I know, mentioning Algorand is an automatic downvote, oh well).
You might be right.. but I am not sure. Could Borland really sue you or something, many years they release the full source code "as is", "provided gratuitously", "no support", "no updates"? I mean it doesn't explicitly say "public domain", but if someone built software using this and then Borland tried to claim ownership of it or something, would that not be some kind of trap? It seems like any reasonable court would not allow that.. I would like to believe anyway.
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- andrewshadura 5y agoI hope I am wrong. But I don't see anywhere in the text of this license any explicit permission to use it for any purpose, it's basically only a warranty disclaimer, unless some bits were omitted by accident.
- ilaksh 5y agoRight. The question is, if I made a program, and for some reason they wanted to extract a fee or make me delete it or something, would a court take their side? Because otherwise what is the utility of releasing the source code of a programming library for free? Could they argue that it was only for educational purposes or something? Again, seems like a trap if it's supposed to be interpreted otherwise. In which case why should such a trap be legal.
- hvdijk 5y agoPublic domain means it's not (any longer) under copyright and therefore no license is needed for any use.
- andrewshadura 5y agoFor anything Python, I recommend you try rich/textual.
- magiblot 5y agoI very much doubt you can get into trouble for using Turbo Vision as an external dependency. There are already projects using it, e.g. https://github.com/electroly/tmbasic https://github.com/electroly/tmbasic.