On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Germain Morbe wrote:

> Hello Piclisters,
>
> some time ago i read a post from a list member wondering if the Optama
> Compiler is a new design or if it is probably a commercial version of the
> shareware c2c compiler.
>
> Meanwhile i had a closer look at it and therefore can state that the Optama
> C Compiler is absolutely not more and not less than the C2C plus Compiler
> version 4.007 from Pavel Baranov. (his own latest release) Both of them
> produce absolutely the same obj code from a given source.
>
> With 2 (3) differences: Optama comes complete with gpasm.exe and sasm.exe
> (which both are freeware) and it comes with a complete set of include files
> for all Pic4s. They are exactly the same ones that come free with MPLAB.
> (means they are copied out of the MPLAB package)

gpasm is not Freeware!
It's licensed under GPL. Are they distributing the source along with
the executable?


Scott

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