Micha Nelissen ha scritto:
Giuliano Colla wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt ha scritto:
[...]
The license is an issue, though;
the CLX CAN NOT be used to <quote>Create a competing product</quote>.
So that limits it's use in Lazarus.
[...]
I've carefully read the licence coming with my copy of Kylix 3 Open
and there's no trace of the quoted sentence. On the contrary, all the
sources of the clx - rtl - rtle carry a standard GPL license. I
enclose both license.txt and the shortest source file I found.
Maybe the matter is worth further investigation.
...
of third parties; (g) reproduce or use the Product except
as expressly authorized under Sections 2, 3 or 4; or (h)
disclose or publish performance benchmark results for the
I think this is the piece of the license that forbids to make a
"clone" so to say.
Micha
For sake of completeness, section 4 specifically includes the GPL
license (where appropriate, not *all* is GPL, but clx is), and therefore
makes it legal to make clx clones. However clones shoud be GPL and not
LGPL, as Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho pointed, and this goes out of
Lazarus scope.
Giuliano Colla
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