On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:29:00AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2/27/07, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Not only for MPL, but also to allow commercial devels to create designtime
> >packages and component editors.
> >
>
> This opens another can of worms as was discussed earlier in the month
> on the FPC Dev mailing list. Currently Lazarus doesn't support dynamic
> loading of packages, which makes it impossible for commercial
> companies to create packages without releasing the source.
IMHO dynamic or static linking wouldn't matter at all. Both are linking in the
GPL sense.
The component plugin interface has to be explicitely exempted
from the GPL (which isn't even that uncommong for plugin interfaces afaik)
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