On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote:
> On 11/08/16 20:25, silvioprog wrote: > >> But now I have a question: many Free Pascal programmers are Delphi >> programmers too, having code that can be compiled in both compilers, and >> sometimes they need to debug deeply, entering into the compiler code and >> looking at it, so, can't a programmer contribute with Free Pascal in >> that situation? If so, I have no more questions. >> > > The compiler code is no problem, since the Delphi compiler code is not > open source. For the RTL: if they looked at parts of the Delphi RTL source > code, then they cannot contribute to the same functionality in the FPC RTL. Hm... now I understood and fully agreed. Since Delphi's TEncoding is part of its RTL and I've looked at its implementation to understand why I can't get leaks compiling my code using it, and there is no definition in copyright of when exactly a work is independent and when it is derivative, so anything I do can be understood as rewrite. -- Silvio Clécio
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