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"""
Lazarus is
free software
. Different portions are distributed under different
free software licenses
, including
GPL,
LGPL,
MPL
, and a modified version of LGPL.
[3]
Specifically, the LCL, which is statically built into the produced
executables, is licensed under a modified version of the LGPL, granting extra
permissions
to allow it to be statically built into the produced software, including
proprietary
ones.
Note that installing a
design-time
package is equivalent to linking to the IDE. Thus, distributing the Lazarus
IDE with a GPL-incompatible design-time package (e.g. the
JEDI
packages, which are licensed under the
Mozilla Public License
) pre-installed would cause a license violation. This does not prohibit
proprietary packages from being developed with Lazarus, though.
"""
