Hello, Note: I'm the FPC core developer that also features in the Ubuntu correspondance. Carlos (the maintainer of this port) can confirm that, or have a look here: http://www.freepascal.org/aboutus.var
The probable infringement was brought to our attention in early 2007. The infringement was made amenable mostly due to trivial means (variable names, fairly small procedures that were the same). The other side was really cooperative, and gave us time to clean up massively, without having to immediately pull all sources, and we employed at tool to identify potential problem sources, and found a lot more. So we cut real wide, and reengineered all potentially infringing code. (all in all a nontrivial amount). However because the infringement was so trivial, and relicensing counterproductive and confusion, it was decided to pull all releases. So in august, after 2.2.2 came out, we removed all older releases from our site, and assumed the mentioning of the copyright problems in our release manifest would be enough to warrant a swift upgrade. I hope it need no explanation that that was a pretty painful step, removing 10 years of history of our project. However, here we are now, 3-4 months after the release and the heads up, and the infringing code is still served from Debian servers. We are not happy with this. Note that it is also not fair to the other party who has been patient, and now could see the code still floating around. In short: please remove the old versions as soon as possible, or upgrade. Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
