You might be right.. but I am not sure. Could Borland really sue you or something, many years they release the full source code "as is", "provided gratuitously", "no support", "no updates"? I mean it doesn't explicitly say "public domain", but if someone built software using this and then Borland tried to claim ownership of it or something, would that not be some kind of trap? It seems like any reasonable court would not allow that.. I would like to believe anyway.
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