Re: [lazarus] lazarus licensing

[Darius Blaszijk]

So what you mean that implicitly the GPL is a statement that the software is free. Thanks that should convince some I think ... ----- Original Message ----- From: Matt Henley To: lazarus@miraclec.com Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 5:10 PM Subject: Re: [lazarus] lazarus licensing If you are looking for a legally sound place to find it.. from inside Lazarus click on the Help and then About.  It states clearly (inside the IDE) that the program is licensed under GPL/LGPL.  Then refer them to the website for the GPL ( http://www.gnu.org ), specifically http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowRequireFee and http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLRequireAvailabilityToPublic I don't really know what more *proof* they could want. I guess you could also download teh source code and show them that each file references the GPL. Matt Henley On 6/23/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > 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