On 17.05.2016 10:01, Denis Kozlov wrote:
On 17 May 2016 at 10:15, Graeme Geldenhuys
<mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk <mailto:mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk>>
wrote:
This was discussed before and the licensing information (readme) was
updated. The GPC code is totally optional and NOT used by default in
AggPas at all. So yes it is fine being there.
Does it make sense to include NON-free components in Lazarus distribution?
How do you define "free"? Is GPL free?
Similarly, many icons were recently removed from Lazarus because they
were NON-free, even though optional to use.
They were not optional to use :)
This breaks the paradigm and consistency that FPC, Lazarus and LCL are
licensed under modified LGPL
<http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/licensing>. It puts developer into
a tricky situation - does one needs to check every source code file to
ensure it can be included in their code base?
You are mixing up 2 different things. See
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Faq#Licensing
Lazarus itself is not licensed under modified LGPL but GPL/LGPL. It's
LCL that uses modified LGPL. Third-party components in "components"
directory have different licenses as well. E.g. some are GPL only (e.g.
CodeTools).
Ondrej
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