"Abubakar" <Ab******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,
on some opensource group when I tried to compile there compiler with vc++
someone said this to me:
"BTW, does the VS.NET license even allows one to write compilers with it?
I remember reading the Visual C++ once and it expressly prohibited writing
competing products (including compilers)."
Is this true?
Ab.
Follow-up. Prevailing opinion (from a MVP group) is that no such restriction
exists in the current license. I read the EULA and can find no explicit
statement making or referring to such a restriction. (I'm not an attorney).
My opinion: your quote comes from somebody trying to spread FUD.
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Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
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