Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have a question for the Lazarus/FPC community,
that I got from a another thread in the mailing list
(Lazarus Foundation).
Does someones knows if there's a potential problem with Lazarus
or FPC due to patents ?
Borland, usuallys has an open mind with open source communities.
But, I remember Borland sued M$ for the use of "Delegation"
("Event pointers") as a patent...
As far as I remember, this was for the use of the window handler
to identify an object instance ?
Just remember, I want to avoid a "flame war",
like it happen with my other comment...
No problem. Some remarks:
1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
2. They would be shooting in their own foot, because FPC/GPC are
actually enlarging their user-base instead of making it smaller.
Hi!
Just curious... That is interesting that you think 2.
I would expect it would making their user-base smaller.
What is the logic behind your assertion?
Regards
Márton Papp
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