On 2016-05-17 14:14, Denis Kozlov wrote: > developer uses an official distribution of IDE, whether it is Lazarus or > Delphi or other, it is not natural to require developer to check *every > component or part* for licensing terms
As Mattias said, it's not per component, but per package. So that reduces the amount of checking significantly. The other thing is, what you are saying above might work fine for closed source applications like Delphi, but not for open source projects like Lazarus. There is no need to limit or place restrictions on bundled [useful] components. Each project developed by an end-user has different goals. > That is why I thought it could be clearer if most of Lazarus/FPC code base > is under the same licensing schema, while everything that falls outside of > it could be easily discovered Placing them in different directories is going to do *nothing* for the “easily discovered” argument. ‘make ide’ or ‘make bigide’ builds a predetermined set of components and registers them on the Component Palette. Lazarus developers tend to simply select and drop a component on a form. They are not going to check which package that component comes from, then double check the directory of that unit. What they are going to do is associate a package dependency with there project. That doesn’t reveal the directory location though. The licensing information should be in the “Package Options -> Description -> License” memo. But sadly, many packages don’t include that information. So again, it is the developers job to make sure any components they use have a license that agrees with their project. No need for the Lazarus Team to police developers. Getting back to AggPas. If you use the AggPas code as-is from the "components" directory, there are no licensing restriction for commercial projects. So there is NO issue by default. You have to explicitly include the gpc unit somewhere in YOUR code before a license restriction applies. AggPas functions perfectly well without the gpc unit, hence it is not referenced anywhere in the standard AggPas units. Regards, Graeme -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://fpgui.sourceforge.net/ My public PGP key: http://tinyurl.com/graeme-pgp -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
