According to Jan-Jaap van der Heijden:

I collected this discussion from comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbvision. Somebody claims to have gotten permission from Borland to release the BP Tvision sources to the public "as long as they are not sold". GNU Pascal is definately the "not for money" category so this may be interesting to us.

Not so definitely. The GPL allows to sell copies of GPC as long as the clients get all rights the vendor had.

Having Turbo Vision available would make it much easier to write attractive applications, at least for the djgpp/dos port of GPC.

Really. We must not distribute Turbo Vision "as part of GPC" because this would restrict distribution of GPC, but it can be in the "contrib" subdirectory.

But I do think we should wait and see what happens next....

I agree. Some official notes from Borland would be good. (The telephone call somebody in a NewsGroup spoke about would not be accepted as a proof in a lawsuit.) (* And GPC cannot compile Turbo Vision anyway at the moment. *)

Peter

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