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GdM's EDIT (TP6 / Pascal) (Developers)

posted by marcov, 04.03.2009, 16:18

> he does warn that EDITOR*.PAS were originally derived from Borland
> (probably GPL incompatible, he says).

Looks like there is really a lot of copyrighted borland code in there, and not just Editors* From a version (6.0) that is afaik never released into PD. TP 5.5 is the newest PDed one. (TP7 French is free though).

IOW it could be that this code is illegal to distribute, be careful with hosting it.

> I don't expect anyone to port this
> to FPC or VPC, but it may have some interesting tidbits in there
> (e.g. DR-DOS specific, maybe other stuff too) that can be gleaned for
> other Pascal editors. In particular, Stefan Weber tells me some of its
> 16-bit-isms may be hard to port (esp. the inline asm). But hey, it can't
> hurt to take a look, can it??

I had a quick look, but I think it would be wisest to diff the modified TP src against the originals to see what degree they are modified (or cut down). It might be easier to do the relevant mods in the FPC tv sources.

I think it would be doable, simply a lot of work.

 

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