For those that don't follow the Lazarus mailing list. It was brought to our attention by a ex-Borland employee (Steve Trefethen), that FPC contains some stolen code from Delphi. Especially Delphi 4 & 5.
The full discussion can be read here... http://www.stevetrefethen.com/files/ppcomp.htm And a single code comparison can be seen here... FPC code is on the right. http://www.stevetrefethen.com/files/ppcomp.htm I have heard that there is software that can do code comparisons to find infringements (I'm thinking of a article between Linux and Minix code). Anybody got such a program available so we can possibly do a automated comparison. I'll try and find out what was used to compare Minix and Linux code. Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
