On 1-6-2013 11:06, Eric Kom wrote: > On 01/06/2013 10:27, Zaher Dirkey wrote: >> 1 - First i hate forking projects it wast the efforts, split the team, >> while other team can work together with first one (i am not mentioning >> who give the reason for that splitting) >> >> 2 - PilotLogic, just feeling, they have plan to make it commercial (i >> don't know if it can be), but from here i smell the money :P > the project is not even GPL or other open source licenses. > They don't do it for science, just for money: > http://www.pilotlogic.com/sitejoom/index.php/wiki/84-wiki/codetyphon-studio/72-codetyphon-about
>From that page: "This Project is licensed as: Freeware." also, as mentioned before, the IDE is GPL so it doesn't matter what they put on their site, it will remain GPL. I suspect they don't mention licenses because there are too many for the IDE, FPC, LCL, the various components they use, and their own glue code/installer code (GPL, modified LGPL, probably MPL etc). Finally: nothing in the (L)GPL prohibits you from selling the product, as long as you provide the source. In practice this mainly boils down to subscription/maintenance payments. Regarding the forking: Zaher, I'd agree in principle with you, however I don't suspect the PilotLogic guy/(guys?) are currently Lazarus devs. If they want to improve the IDE, we can all benefit due to the GPL. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
