[fpc-devel] Random thread-safe

Jonas Maebe jonas.maebe at elis.ugent.be
Fri Jan 29 14:16:16 CET 2016


Jonas Maebe wrote on Fri, 29 Jan 2016:

> Ondrej Pokorny wrote on Fri, 29 Jan 2016:
>
>> On 28.01.2016 13:30, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>> Mersenne twister
>>
>> Should I be worried about the GPL-2 license of the Mersenne Twister  
>> that is cited in system.inc?
>
> It's LGPL, not GPL.

There is however the problem that it doesn't seem to be licensed with  
the static linking exception, which I apparently missed back in the  
day. I'll replace it with a Pascal translation of the public domain  
implementation available at https://github.com/dajobe/libmtwist


Jonas



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