Zitat von Brad Campbell <[email protected]>:
Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
I see no problem with licensing e.g. the Find dialog under GPL when
used in building the IDE, and under LGPL when used in other
applications as part of the LCL.
I agree with you, but that call is up to the author(s) of that
particular component.
Yes. We, the authors, can change the license at will. So moving code
from the IDE to LCL is not a big problem.
I have read the licensing something like this :
"We provide the lcl licensed similarly to the fpc rtl to encourage
use in projects of all kinds and we provide an extent of Delphi
compatible functionality to accommodate this use, but we put an
incredible amount of work into the specialised components of the ide
and we the authors feel that it should be licensed GPL as a result."
Speaking for myself, GPL was chosen for the IDE and codetools, because
I don't want to see some closed source IDE fork.
I can't argue with this logic and if I were a major contributor to
the IDE I'd want my license terms honoured also.
Now, I've cleaned up the CR/LF damage in my find patch and submitted
it to the patch tracker for comment. If it gets included then I win,
and if not then I'll continue to maintain it out of tree for my own
use. Either way I still have the LCL to build on and therefore I'm
way ahead of the game.
I think these are interesting idea. I had not yet the time to inspect
the quality of the code.
Mattias
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