Re: [lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: To ALL developers, I got confirmation from Dave Nottage on the borland non-technical newsgroup that ALL source code included in Delphi are copyright material, including the sample units. Only files mentioned in the deploy text file as redistributable are allowed. This matter should go in a new page in the FPC/Lazarus wiki... ...along with guidelines to help re-building of new units/components in respect of other author's copyrights? Someone have some hints about that? tiziano _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
On 10/30/07, Graeme Geldenhuys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To ALL developers, > > I got confirmation from Dave Nottage on the borland non-technical > newsgroup that ALL source code included in Delphi are copyright > material, including the sample units. Only files mentioned in the > deploy text file as redistributable are allowed. It was expected, and it's kinda sad. I think that all over the history development of open source products that are collapse to Borland, Borland always choose not to give any type of support for the development etc.. and sometimes they are too quite with their reactions... With free-vision there where also some legal issues as well... But that's another discussion.. > > [ Forwarded email ]--- > > > > Could somebody please tell me if I am allowed to use those as public > > > domain in Open Source projects? > > You're not allowed to distribute *any* of the source files. > > -- > > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > > > I would like an official reference please. > > For CodeGear RAD Studio, Section 3 of license.rtf. In particular, 3.1. > Also refer to Deploy.htm for descriptions of files that can be > redistributed. > --- > > > Regards, > - Graeme - > > > ___ > fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit > http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ > Ido -- http://ik.homelinux.org/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
To ALL developers, I got confirmation from Dave Nottage on the borland non-technical newsgroup that ALL source code included in Delphi are copyright material, including the sample units. Only files mentioned in the deploy text file as redistributable are allowed. [ Forwarded email ]--- > > Could somebody please tell me if I am allowed to use those as public > > domain in Open Source projects? You're not allowed to distribute *any* of the source files. -- Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > I would like an official reference please. For CodeGear RAD Studio, Section 3 of license.rtf. In particular, 3.1. Also refer to Deploy.htm for descriptions of files that can be redistributed. --- Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I'll try and find a support email for CodeGear and see what they say. Try borland.public.delphi.non-technical at newsgroups.borland.com. -- Joao Morais _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
Graeme Geldenhuys ha scritto: On 29/10/2007, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My first thought would be that they are copy protected by Borland, but they don't seem to have the usual copy protection header in the units. So could they be public domain? I don't know, I treat them as they are. Better ask Borland. Thanks Marc. I'll try and find a support email for CodeGear and see what they say. The reason I ask, is because I got the same issue as you did two days ago. I got a code contribution which is a near exact copy of the gauge.pas unit and don't want to study it to hard or commit it to the fpGUI repository until I know the legal issues with using those Sample units. Regards, - Graeme - FWIW, of the components in the Samples directory of Delphi 4 (the one I have at hand), colorgrid.pas has a Copyright notice, and so do ibctrls.pas, ibevnts.pas ibproc32.pas, while the other units (i.e. calendar.pas, diroutln.pas, gauges.pas ibconst.pas and spin.pas) do not. As far as gauges.pas is concerned, if I remember well, they should be ashamed of coypyrighting it, because they didn't even bother to test it: as it was it didn't work, because of some error I don't remember. Giuliano _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
On 29/10/2007, Marc Weustink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My first thought would be that they are copy protected by Borland, but > > they don't seem to have the usual copy protection header in the units. > > So could they be public domain? > > I don't know, I treat them as they are. > Better ask Borland. Thanks Marc. I'll try and find a support email for CodeGear and see what they say. The reason I ask, is because I got the same issue as you did two days ago. I got a code contribution which is a near exact copy of the gauge.pas unit and don't want to study it to hard or commit it to the fpGUI repository until I know the legal issues with using those Sample units. Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
Re: [lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: Hi, Anybody know if we may use the following units or are they copy protected by Borland as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ pwd /mnt/windows/Program Files/Borland/Delphi7/Source/Samples [snip] My first thought would be that they are copy protected by Borland, but they don't seem to have the usual copy protection header in the units. So could they be public domain? I don't know, I treat them as they are. Better ask Borland. Marc _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] Delphi Source/Samples/*.pas units
Hi, Anybody know if we may use the following units or are they copy protected by Borland as well? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ pwd /mnt/windows/Program Files/Borland/Delphi7/Source/Samples [EMAIL PROTECTED]:$ ls -l total 104 -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 8605 2002-08-20 18:40 Calendar.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 17123 2002-08-20 18:40 ColorGrd.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 10948 2002-08-20 18:40 DirOutln.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 10980 2002-08-20 18:40 Gauges.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 787 2002-08-20 18:40 IBConst.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 13867 2002-08-20 18:40 IBCtrls.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 2138 2002-08-20 18:40 IBEvnts.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 4082 2002-08-20 18:40 IBProc32.pas -r-xr-x--- 1 root plugdev 17538 2002-08-20 18:40 Spin.pas My first thought would be that they are copy protected by Borland, but they don't seem to have the usual copy protection header in the units. So could they be public domain? Regards, - Graeme - ___ fpGUI - a cross-platform Free Pascal GUI toolkit http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
