On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On 4/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1.
> FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
> > are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
>
> A more clear example: I will help the One Laptop Per Child Foundation
> develop one of their softwares.
>
> I am exitating to use Lazarus, because Borland may sue OLPC on patent
> infringment due to VCL patents. And remeber that OLPC is on the United
> States.
>
> Is this possibility a reality?
>
> My second alternative (and a more likely one) is to use Free Pascal
> with pure GTK+
Assuming that we are actually infringing on any patents (which I don't believe):
It will not be Lazarus that 'infringes' on patents. It would be the compiler
itself. The whole event handler stuff is a compiler construct.
The RTL/FCL/LCL is free of Borland code, so we are not copying any Borland
code. You are safe there.
So moving to GTK does you no good; you might as well use Lazarus...
The IDE is definitely free of Borland code too, since that code has
never been released :-)
Michael.
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