On 26 January 2011 15:23, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho < felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Michael Schnell <mschn...@lumino.de> > wrote: > > In fact I did ask Martin and he did agree that I am allowed to offer his > > code to Lazarus, but I really consider it bad design and difficult to > > maintain to have multiple completely unsynced implementations of the same > > functionality in the same source code tree.(We did discuss this already > some > > years go.) > > Actually it is the opposite of what you are thinking. It's not a > matter of being allowed to share. This question is never present in > GPL/LGPL, sharing is always allowed. Not sharing is what might be > prohibited, depending on what use you make of this software. > > I think what Michael is saying is he doesn't want to make a gift of something which will lead you down a path of twisty turning winding passages all of which will lead you to nowhere quickly. It is the kind of code you don't want to attempt to unravel - better to start of with a clean slate. > -- > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > -- Frank Church ======================= http://devblog.brahmancreations.com
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