Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Sven Barth
On 06.01.2017 16:44, Lars wrote: > On Tue, January 3, 2017 6:10 pm, Snorkl e wrote: >> They might with a change of ownership, who knows these days, but the >> fact they did use it in the past would not look good for any litigation >> from some bottom feeder. > > The fact that they use FPC, means

[fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.X next to 2.6.4 on Linux

2017-01-06 Thread Krzysztof
Hi, I have installed FPC 2.6.4 for a long time on my Linux with install.sh script in /usr dirs. I would like to install FPC 3.0.0 but keep 2.6.4 as "default" version due to a lot of company projects which I don't want reconfigure. I want to install FPC 3.0.0 somewhere in my home dir and configure

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 3.0.X next to 2.6.4 on Linux

2017-01-06 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 6 Jan 2017, Krzysztof wrote: Hi, I have installed FPC 2.6.4 for a long time on my Linux with install.sh script in /usr dirs. I would like to install FPC 3.0.0 but keep 2.6.4 as "default" version due to a lot of company projects which I don't want reconfigure. I want to install FPC

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Lars
On Tue, January 3, 2017 5:47 am, Dmitriy Pomerantsev wrote: > Doesn't matter since FPC license allowing that. > > > Dmitriy Pomerantsev. Well, Kylix, AFAIR was actually released under GPL at one time too, so in a way delphi already allowed it too (although, more a LGPL would have really

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Lars
On Sun, January 1, 2017 10:23 pm, Mr Bee wrote: > Hi all, > There's someone accusing that Free Pascal (and some parts of Lazarus) is > just a reverse engineering of Delphi. Even he said some codes of FPC/Laz > are taken from Delphi (and Kylix). This is a serious allegation. I know > that isn't

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-01-06 15:49, Lars wrote: > What does this product allow? CodeTyphon distributes the source code of Embarcadero's FireMonkey predecessor (previously known as VG-Scene or something), but rebranded as "Orca". Neither FireMonkey or its predecessor is/was open source. Regards, Graeme --

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Lars
On Thu, January 5, 2017 2:46 am, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > I also know from first hand experience that Embarcadero has been made > aware of CodeTyphon's copying and distribution of FireMonkey (called Orca > or something in CodeTyphon). What does this product allow? Compilation of firemonkey

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Lars
On Fri, January 6, 2017 8:59 am, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-01-06 15:49, Lars wrote: > >> What does this product allow? >> > > CodeTyphon distributes the source code of Embarcadero's FireMonkey > predecessor (previously known as VG-Scene or something), but rebranded as > "Orca". Neither

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-01-06 16:14, Lars wrote: > Okay but what's the point of it? to be able to compile firemonkey like > applications without buying delphi? Yes, you can build hardware accelerated GUI applications using that toolkit. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Lars
On Tue, January 3, 2017 6:10 pm, Snorkl e wrote: > They might with a change of ownership, who knows these days, but the > fact they did use it in the past would not look good for any litigation > from some bottom feeder. The fact that they use FPC, means they likely reverse engineer FPC and

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Lars
On Fri, January 6, 2017 9:21 am, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2017-01-06 16:14, Lars wrote: > >> Okay but what's the point of it? to be able to compile firemonkey like >> applications without buying delphi? > > Yes, you can build hardware accelerated GUI applications using that > toolkit. >

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC clean room project

2017-01-06 Thread Tomas Hajny
Hello, Could be potential further discussion about FireMonkey moved to fpc-other, please? I don't think that it's still related to FPC... Thank you Tomas (one of FPC mailing list moderators) Original Message Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal]