[Lazarus] Concerning GPL compatibility with more permissive licenses

2013-06-30 Thread Kenneth Cochran
I am working on a mini framework that acts as an abstraction over the Delphi and Lazarus IDE extension APIs. The idea is a single API that can be used to develop extensions for both. Most or all of the Lazarus source is covered under the GPL. It is my understanding that the GPL requires derivative

Re: [Lazarus] Concerning GPL compatibility with more permissive licenses

2013-06-30 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 30-6-2013 5:37, Kenneth Cochran wrote: > Most or all of the Lazarus source is covered under the GPL. It is my > understanding that the GPL requires derivative works (by static linking) > to also be open source. Do derivative works necessarily need to be under > the same license? I would like to

Re: [Lazarus] Concerning GPL compatibility with more permissive licenses

2013-06-30 Thread Martin
On 30/06/2013 16:37, Kenneth Cochran wrote: I am working on a mini framework that acts as an abstraction over the Delphi and Lazarus IDE extension APIs. The idea is a single API that can be used to develop extensions for both. Most or all of the Lazarus source is covered under the GPL. It is m

Re: [Lazarus] Concerning GPL compatibility with more permissive licenses

2013-06-30 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Martin schrieb: Actually, the IdeIntf is LGPL + linking permission. So, if you only use the IDEIntf (and LCL, RTL) and do not ship a pre-build IDE with your package included then you can use any license. Users can build an IDE with your package, but must publish the build exe (if I am right: