On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 11:02:00AM -0500, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:
> > Exactly.  What's cheaper, buying the compiler ready to run out of the b=
ox
> > from Microchip, or spending a lot of time downloading source and build =
tools
> > and futzing around trying to get something that hopefully works and isn=
't
> > just "mostly" working with some non-obvious flaws.  And then do you act=
ually
> > get the extra code Microchip created anyway.  Isn't the code you can
> > download and build only for the free version?
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> To comply with the GPL uChip has to provide the code to the full version=
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> on request of a customer who has obtained the full version. (Unless what=
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> the full adds is a separate program.)

Presuming that the optimizations are integrated, as Wouter alluded to
above, then anyone who gets that full version, with the source code, also
has to right to redistribute the code if they so choose to.

Mchip only has to make the offer and provide code on request to those who
they distribute to. If no one asks, then they are no obligated to hand out
anything.

BAJ

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