I see a lot of echoing about relicensing to GPL, and I regret naming that
option in the Ubuntu bugreport, since it should NOT be taken as gospel.
In case Debian/Ubuntu is serious about this, this is roughly the situation
of GPL licensing option:
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The whole possibility of relicensing to GPL is based on just a remark on
a mailing list that all offending code is in some sf.net project.
But there are two problems with the option of relicensing:
- These claims were not verified.
- Due to the moment the disputed code appeared in the FPC tree (pre 2000),
it can't have Kylix (including the GPL sf.net project) origin. This
might put the whole GPL option on shaky ground.
The FPC project has NOT researched this to the fullest (since we decided to
retract all releases with potentially infringing code), and won't do this
either.
All talk of GPL relicensing is based on a few loose remarks on FPC
core when the release planning for 2.2.2 was done, which were not followed
up.
So if you want to try the relicensing option, one must verify the facts
themselves and/or arrange for legal council and/or contact Codegear yourselves.
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