Re: VCLZip Pro 3.04

From: Alan Garny (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 01/15/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:08:07 -0000

"David J Taylor" <davidtaylor@writeme.com.not-this-bit> wrote in message
news:40066782$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> > Anyway, that's not the point. I am developing a software that I make
> > available for free and with source code to the scientific community in
> which
> > I am involved in. From there, I canNOT have one bit of code for which I
> > cannot provide the source code.
> You don't provide the source code for the OS on which your applications
> run, so what's different about "just one more DLL"?

The difference is that by having the whole source code, my users can
recompile the whole project without any problem (as long as they have D7,
which is the only requirement), after having modified it, if they wanted to.
I guess there is a bit of background to this decision of mine. Namely that I
have been using scientific softwares in the past that have generated results
that I couldn't explain to myself. From there, I wish I had had the
opportunity to check the code. As a matter of fact, in one occasion I could
just do that and found out that there were indeed some bugs... That's the
reason I have decided to make my software open source and for that reason,
it means that any 3rd party package I use must be open source too.

In other words, I cannot use VCLZip or any commercial package, because
should I decide to use it, I wouldn't be allowed to distribute it (which is
fair enough). My users would have to buy it in order to recompile my
application, should they wish to do so. Therefore, as it stands, it's not an
option in my opinion.

    Alan.

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