Re: [fpc-pascal] GPL advertising - was Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 Feb 2006, at 18:16, L505 wrote: The GPL only requires that you keep the credits in the sources, not that you advertise other people's work or products inside your own program, even if your program somehow uses that functionality. Imagine otherwise the credits list required for programs li

Re: [fpc-pascal] GPL advertising - was Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread L505
> > The GPL only requires that you keep the credits in the sources, not > that you advertise other people's work or products inside your own > program, even if your program somehow uses that functionality. > Imagine otherwise the credits list required for programs like the > GIMP or so if each use

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
> Marco van de Voort napisa?(a): > >>> That is not possible with the GPL, LGPL or even the FPC RTL license. If > >>> you require such credit, people will also not be able to use your > >>> library in a (L)GPL product, because the resulting license will be > >>> incompatible with the (L)GPL.. > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Marco van de Voort napisał(a): That is not possible with the GPL, LGPL or even the FPC RTL license. If you require such credit, people will also not be able to use your library in a (L)GPL product, because the resulting license will be incompatible with the (L)GPL.. Understood. But I guess I

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote: That is not possible with the GPL, LGPL or even the FPC RTL license. If you require such credit, people will also not be able to use your library in a (L)GPL product, because the resulting license will be incompatible with the (L)GPL.. Understoo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Marco van de Voort
> > That is not possible with the GPL, LGPL or even the FPC RTL license. If > > you require such credit, people will also not be able to use your > > library in a (L)GPL product, because the resulting license will be > > incompatible with the (L)GPL.. > > Understood. But I guess I can live with

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Jonas Maebe napisał(a): That is only required if people statically link to your units. If they compile them into a shared library and link against that, they do not have to open their sources. That's the whole point of the LGPL. Yet, in case of a library that is based around classes that woul

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 10 feb 2006, at 10:27, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Can you explain WHY it is incompatible. I don't see why it is incompatible with the (L)GPL. Different, maybe. But incompatible ? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00284.html, and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Michael Van Canneyt napisał(a): On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Ugh, sorry to drop into this thread, but that reminded me of a problem I have. I'm not much oriented in licences, hence I ask your help -- I created a collection of FPC units, game-dev oriented, and I wanted to rele

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 feb 2006, at 10:24, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Ugh, sorry to drop into this thread, but that reminded me of a problem I have. I'm not much oriented in licences, hence I ask your help -- I created a collection of FPC units, game-dev oriented, and I wanted to release them to the public

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 feb 2006, at 10:27, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Can you explain WHY it is incompatible. I don't see why it is incompatible with the (L)GPL. Different, maybe. But incompatible ? See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/01/msg00284.html, and in particular http://www.gnu.org/licenses

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: Michael Van Canneyt napisa(a): On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, L505 wrote: What does 'advertise' mean in this context ? Take a look at Stallman's page about FreeBSD license and how freebsd "advertises Berkley and California unreasonably" or whatever. Pe

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Jonas Maebe wrote: On 10 feb 2006, at 09:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Take a look at Stallman's page about FreeBSD license and how freebsd "advertises Berkley and California unreasonably" or whatever. Personally I'm more of a FreeBSD style guy and I might even switch

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Kornel Kisielewicz
Michael Van Canneyt napisał(a): On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, L505 wrote: What does 'advertise' mean in this context ? Take a look at Stallman's page about FreeBSD license and how freebsd "advertises Berkley and California unreasonably" or whatever. Personally I'm more of a FreeBSD style guy and I mi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 10 feb 2006, at 09:48, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: Take a look at Stallman's page about FreeBSD license and how freebsd "advertises Berkley and California unreasonably" or whatever. Personally I'm more of a FreeBSD style guy and I might even switch to FreeBSD over linux because of religi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, L505 wrote: What does 'advertise' mean in this context ? 3. You must have a visible line in your programs aboutbox or documentation that it is made using RemObjects Pascal Script and where RemObjects Pascal Script can be found. i. e. You must put a link to RO homep