On 7-8-2011 18:50, Jonas Maebe wrote:
I hope so. The main problem I see with that is that they would become
somewhat "tainted" by the FPC source code if they do so, which may
make it harder to work on their own compiler later on. As long as they
don't start blatantly copying code from FPC into their own compiler
(like some people did in the past with Delphi RTL code into the FPC
RTL) I don't think anyone who has contributed to the compiler would
really care if they learned a bunch of stuff from our code base, but
of course they have lawyers who almost certainly will care a lot. This
can of course be solved in various ways (have someone who normally
does not work on their compiler work on ours, hire a someone
temporarily to do that work, external contractor, ...).
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I would not be surpised at all if they have done so. After all, they
really appreciated the clean-room stuff done on FPC's RTL. This might
sound strange after legal threads, but that is how California works.
They are still very capable of destroying parts of the FreePascal
community, especially Lazarus, in at least the USA and based on their
strong patent portfolio if they would take up legal action. This is
something that should not be forgotten: see the Sun->Oracle-> Sue you
Google about Android.
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