From: "Clemens Lanthaler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date sent: Wed, 03 Jul 2002 11:56:20 +0200 (CEST)
Priority: Normal
Subject: Re: [Sibyl] who can work? :-)
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> ToDO's:
> - clearance about the licence
We discussed this on the FPC core team meeting this weekend. LGPL
doesn't make it possible to link libraries statically unless you plan
to distribute the product you're creating under LGPL as well. This is
because you have to make it possible for the users to modify the
LGPLed library (and still to use it with your distributed product).
Since we (the FPC team) want to make it possible for users to create
products falling under whatever licence they wish (including
commercial ones), this means that either:
- We must get a permission to slightly modify the Sibyl RTL licence
to make static linking possible (i.e. move it under FPC RTL licence)
from the Sibyl copyright owner(s) (the IDE licence isn't a problem,
of course)
or:
- You can only modify implementations of FPC RTL functions (where
needed for compatibility reasons, fixing, etc.) by exploring what
corresponding functions from the Sibyl RTL do and then reimplementing
it for FPC (i.e. no copy & paste). Changes created using copy & paste
can't be included within the official FPC RTL. As long as OS/2 DLLs
can't be created using FPC currently (because of the EMX
limitations), everybody will only be allowed to use the components,
etc. in (L)GPLed projects temporarily. As soon as we have support for
creating native LX executables in FPC (hopefully soon), users can
compile the LGPLed units to DLLs and use them in whatever project
they wish afterwards.
> - fpc people contact
I'm here (subscribed to the list). Do you need somebody else? ;-)
.
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> Is it possible to get the VCL source Code or don't Borland deliver the
> source code with the compiler ?
Source code for CLX (VCL version reworked for Kylix) is available
from SourceForge, IMHO, but its use is limited to GPLed projects
unless you buy Kylix or Delphi licence. VCL source code is / was
distributed with Delphi (but can only be used by Delphi licence
owners). So you can only use it for inspiration anyway.
Tomas
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