Re: [fpc-devel] Copyrighted material in bugtracker?

2019-10-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Bart wrote: On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:52 PM Michael Van Canneyt wrote: I tend to agree on this, I think this is harmless. You'd have to throw away large parts of stackoverflow if this was enforced rigorously. What if this piece of code ends up in the compiler? Can Emb

Re: [fpc-devel] Copyrighted material in bugtracker?

2019-10-04 Thread Bart
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:52 PM Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > I tend to agree on this, I think this is harmless. > > You'd have to throw away large parts of stackoverflow if this was enforced > rigorously. What if this piece of code ends up in the compiler? Can Embarcadero (or however they're cal

Re: [fpc-devel] Copyrighted material in bugtracker?

2019-10-04 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Kai Burghardt wrote: Ahoy! On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Bart wrote: It appears that this is coe copied from some Delphi version. In general, I side with the FSF. Citing code - i.e. a /small/ excerpt _naming_ the source - is legit. No software patents! I t

Re: [fpc-devel] Copyrighted material in bugtracker?

2019-10-04 Thread Kai Burghardt
Ahoy! On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Bart wrote: > It appears that this is coe copied from some Delphi version. In general, I side with the FSF. Citing code - i.e. a /small/ excerpt _naming_ the source - is legit. No software patents! -- Sincerely yours Kai Burghardt signature.asc D

[fpc-devel] Copyrighted material in bugtracker?

2019-10-04 Thread Bart
Hi, Can somebody with developer status in the bugtracker please look at https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=36129#c118331 It appears that this is coe copied from some Delphi version. -- Bart ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.or