Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread John Stoneham
Sorry if I'm a little late to this discussion. I just wanted to let you know that I am an attorney and have handled copyright infringement cases in the US (most recently the SONY vs. Crain music piracy case). As a hobby programmer and FPC/Lazarus enthusiast, I would be more than happy to review,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, John Stoneham wrote: Sorry if I'm a little late to this discussion. I just wanted to let you know that I am an attorney and have handled copyright infringement cases in the US (most recently the SONY vs. Crain music piracy case). As a hobby programmer and FPC/Lazarus

Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 15 Jan 2008, at 14:05, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On 15/01/2008, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- 8 -- thanks for your explanation, i was curious what the progress on this was. are there similar infringements in the lcl that needs to be replaced, or has this not been

Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008, Henry Vermaak wrote: On 15/01/2008, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- 8 -- As far as I can judge: They count on us to play things fair, and let us handle it to our own judgement for the moment, but said that if we undertook no action, they would take

Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread Henry Vermaak
On 15/01/2008, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- 8 -- As far as I can judge: They count on us to play things fair, and let us handle it to our own judgement for the moment, but said that if we undertook no action, they would take the necessary steps to protect their IP. We have

Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread John Stoneham
On Jan 15, 2008 6:16 AM, Michael Van Canneyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The initial accusations were published on a Blog of some former Borland employee or afficionado. He contacted codegear, apparently, and then a codegear official (Alan Bauer) contacted some of the FPC team members by private

Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Emerson
Judging from the posts in this thread, it does seem that the FPC team found some code after their review that needed fixing, and I'm glad that's mostly been finished. However, it does concern me that the LCL team hasn't performed the same kind of in-house analysis on their code yet. Until they

Re: [fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

2008-01-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
yet. Until they do, I'm afraid this issue won't go away anytime soon. Please forgive my ignorance, but what is LCL? The visual classes libray of Lazarus. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org