writing competing products in vc++

[Guest]

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.

 

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

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?

For an authoritative answer: Find EULA.TXT in your VC++ distribution and
hire a lawyer to determine if your project is in conflict with the license
agreement. For a less authoritative answer, read it yourself and see what
you think.

-cd

 

[Peter van der Goes]

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.

You might consider the source of the question, and ask yourself if the
questioner is just trying to jerk you around. Any signs of anti-Microsoft
zealotism there?
Meanwhile, I'll try to get you an authoritative answer. I'm certainly not
qualified to say!

 

[Peter van der Goes]

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.

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much for supplying this information!

Abubakar.
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