[Pkg-pascal-devel] Dual license of TRegXepr class library?

Сорокин Андрей anso at mail.ru
Sun May 31 17:56:29 UTC 2015


Thank you for clarifications.

Yes, I agree.


Andrey

31.05.2015, 18:19, "Paul Gevers" <elbrus at debian.org>:
> Hi Андрей,
>
> Just to be absolutely clear, FPC has the following exception added to
> the LPGL:
>
> As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you
> permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an
> executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent
> modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms
> of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked independent
> module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An
> independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on
> this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception
> to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If
> you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.
>
> You also agree with that addition?
>
> Paul
>
> On 31-05-15 15:33, Сорокин Андрей wrote:
>>  Hello,
>>
>>  Yes, LGPL is suitable license for the TRegExpr library.
>>  Even if you name it TRegXepr ;)
>>
>>  Andrey
>>
>>  31.05.2015, 14:12, "Paul Gevers" <elbrus at debian.org>:
>>>  Hi Andrey,
>>>
>>>  I am one of the maintainers of Lazarus (an IDE build in and for
>>>  FreePascal) in Debian, which is a leading Linux distribution. As part of
>>>  that job, I am currently going through all the licenses that I can find
>>>  in the source of Lazarus. The Lazarus source contains one file [1]
>>>  authored by you which contains a slightly unclear license statement.
>>>  However, apparently you granted the FPC project already the license for
>>>  your source under the FPC modified LGPL [2]. Can I safely assume that
>>>  also the copy in the Lazarus source (which has different modifications)
>>>  falls under the same dual license?
>>>
>>>  Awaiting your answer.
>>>  Paul
>>>
>>>  [1]
>>>  http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/components/synedit/synregexpr.pas?root=lazarus&view=co&content-type=text%2Fplain
>>>  [2] http://lists.freepascal.org/pipermail/fpc-devel/2011-August/025239.html



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