> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm having some questions about the licensing of Lazarus. According to >> the >> docs supplied lazarus sourcecode is GPLed. Does this mean that the IDE >> binary is too? Is this automatically the case always? > > Yes. > >> In my company I got the question to provide a proof that Lazarus is >> freeware. I cannot find it on the website. The only remark I found in >> the >> about section is that you can create commercial apps with the ide. > > All source files refer to the COPYING file. No other proof is needed ?
"When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price." is mentioned in the GPL. This does not answer my question how to prove that I didn't need to pay for lazarus. >> I'm shure that other have similar issues, therefore I would like a >> "legal >> issues" section to be placed on the main site page? > > I think it can be useful, but nor prioritary... For me it is, if I cannot sort it out with my company I will need to remove Lazarus from my PC. > > Maybe it exists in the wiki ? Is that a "legally" sound place to put it in ;) Darius > > Michael. > > _________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > "unsubscribe" as the Subject > archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives > _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
