In our previous episode, Tom Verhoeff said: > > > > Post the sources somewhere using the license header we use? > > I intend to do just that. I was considering the use of plain GPL, > rather than LGPL. However, I wonder if that would interfere with the > incorporation into FreePascal.
Neither are good. GPL is mostly definitely not allowed for library routines (it is fine for the compiler, IDE or utils) > Is it the case that all FPC libraries use (a variant of) LGPL? LGPL-with-linking-exception to be precise. (see rtl/copying.fpc for the differences with ordinary LGPL) This is a bit more liberal than LGPL either, otherwise everybody would have to linking dynamically to FPC libs, which is technically hard to impossible. (and not desirable to make that mandatory anyway). > I am willing to use that license, but if GPL is an option, I would > prefer that. Not for library routines. GPLed library routines are useless. Even GNU doesn't do that. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
