In our previous episode, Dani?l Mantione said: > > and C++ you can get hell when you change the order of elements, > > with interleaved #defines and #ifs (what's possible in Pascal as > > well). > > If the order of elements is enforced, it is not a creative decision, thus > both programmers can make the same decision without violating each others > copyright.
This sidestep thread over the EU directive misses the main point. Legal or not, the question is do we really copy interfaces straight from Borland source? Afaik not. At least I never did, I always looked up header definitions from places as Delphi.about.com _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel