[Gambas-user] Some info for a news writer

[Rob]

On Saturday 31 January 2004 19:29, Rammyres José O. Pereira 
wrote:
> 1st - Are the language 'binaries' in a kind of intermediate
> language (such as bytecode or .NET M$ Intermediate Lang)? (NB:
> i read something about VM at project site)

Yes, binaries produced by Gambas are in its own bytecode.

> 2nd - Guessing the Gambas' (and it's components) license is
> GPL, should i create 'proprietary' projects to sell?

Seeing as how the only GUI component currently is for Qt, which 
is GPL, and considering what's said in the GPL FAQ on gnu.org, 
you do need to GPL your Gambas projects.  However, nothing 
prevents you from selling Gambas projects, as long as you 
include the source under the terms of the GPL ;)  

> 3rd - Is there any way to execute the program output without
> gbx? 4th - Is there any way to compile as a native executable
> (i.e.: ELF)?

It's entirely possible that if Gambas becomes popular enough, 
someone will write a tool to allow this, as people have done for 
Tcl, Python and Perl.  Currently, though, you need gbx and the 
appropriate components to be installed on each machine to which 
you want to deploy your Gambas project.  The Gambas IDE doesn't 
need to be installed on every machine since it's just a Gambas 
project itself.

Rob