Am 17.05.2016 um 10:41 schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> 
> I just had a similar thread in the FPC mailing list. The “Simplified
> BSD” (2-clause) license is as “free” as you can get, but apparently it
> doesn’t fit in with the goals of Free Pascal’s FCL, 

Please quote properly! The reason is not that it does not fit into the goals 
but the reason is
simply that we cannot expect that everybody checks each used packages unit for 
its license and add
the appropriate copyright line to the application if a certain unit is used.

> so no BSD licensed
> components will be accepted in the FCL. I believe that is very
> unfortunate, but I respect there wishes.
> 


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