On Thursday 12 August 2010 03:57:59 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Ger Remmers wrote: > > I understand what you are saying, but no, it's none of Florians business > > (sorry Florian) to know what I'm using, or how I''m using it. > > Actually I don't think that's true. I don't think that FPC has been > placed in the public domain so Florian (or somebody) still retains > nominal ownership and copyright.
Of course, the source code remains property of the developers. > As such he emphatically DOES have a > right to know that you're using the compiler and its related subprojects > in accordance with the licensing terms (LGPL etc.), and that's probably > particularly important in the case of e.g. the TurboPower stuff. > > What is more I think that he has that "right to know" irrespective of > your views or consent. Whether I like that or not is irrelevant. And here we disagree. No developer has "the right" to know what I use the program for as long as I don't claim the program to be my product. > > I'm sure that you're aware that there is a small but growing number of > companies who have been forced to admit that they were abusing the > (L)GPL: do you think that they consented to the software's owners > finding out that they were doing that? I wasn't aware of that ( I don't keep tabs on the software world). -- Regards Ger -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
