On 07/01/17 19:30, Lars wrote:
On Fri, January 6, 2017 12:51 pm, Sven Barth wrote:
Ehm... Delphi's compiler is written in C++, not Delphi as far as we
know. Also their NEXTGEN compiler is utilizing LLVM, something we won't
purely do.
Yes the exe signature was c/c++
That does not forgive copyright just because different language is used..
Any fpc code can be easily converted to C code
In fact that hides copyright violations a bit as it masks them by
converting to a new language.
I don't think that copyright would survive translation. A patent of the
algorithms would, but that is opening a whole new can of worms.
Whoever owns Delphi these days might be able to claim a "look and feel"
violation, but ultimately Delphi used ideas which had previously been
demonstrated viable by MS VB, even if Borland's implementation was
vastly improved.
So I don't think we need to give anonymous trolls a platform.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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