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This sofware license is for Prog8 the compiler + associated libraries.
The software generated by running the compiler is excluded from this.
Any and all outputs generated by the compiler (intermediary
source code and compiled binary programs) are excluded from that
and you can do with them whatever you want.

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Prog8 is copyright © Irmen de Jong (irmen@razorvine.net | http://www.razorvine.net).
The project is on github: https://github.com/irmen/prog8.git
This software is licensed under the GNU GPL 3.0, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
**License:**
The compiler itself and included libraries are free to use, but licensed under the GNU GPL 3.0, as written here https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
Any and all *outputs, generated by the compiler* (intermediary codes and compiled binary programs) are excluded from that and you
can do with those whatever you want.
This means, for instance, that you can freely use Prog8 to create commercial software but you can only sell/redistribute *the actual resulting program*.
The *compiler itself* or any derivative made from it has to adhere to the GNU GPL 3.0 free open-source license linked above.
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