Hi, Due to the previous discussion of copyright infringement in FPC code, I downloaded a Similarity Tester (SIM 2.21) and ran it against a few random selected files, comparing LCL to Kylix 3 source.
Oh my!!! I found quite a bit of code that are marked as copied. No, I'm not talking about the class interfaces which are duplicated or purpose. Note: This tool is automated and fast. I'm sure _not_ everything it detects are actual copied code, but it might be worth our while going through it and verifying the code marked. Rather be safe than sorry. Plus we can then say we tried to remove infringed code from our side. BTW: The tool can be downloaded from the following website. It's for MSDOS and Unix. I just compiled SIM 2.21 under Ubuntu 7.10 without problems. http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/similarity_tester A quick way to get everything: wget -nd ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/similarity_tester/* Regards, - Graeme - _______________________________________________ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
