[fpc-devel] Licensing of packages

[Daniël Mantione]

Hi!

Several packages have been added recently. I would like to urge people to =

be a bit more strict on the licensing issue, i.e. the md4 unit contains =

this message:

  Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
  a implementation of MD4 designed for use in the SMB authentication protoc=
ol
  Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1997-1998.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

It's LGPL, but no static linking exception, and thus undermindes the =

static linking possibilities of FPC. This is IMHO unnecessary. =

Asking permission is usually no big deal (I did it with the hermen/ptcpas =

stuff). Further, while it is nice to credit the Samba team, but an md4 =

implementation can be done without someone else owning copyrights, which =

might even be already the case here.

Of course there will be interfaces to external packages which will have =

copyrights we cannot do anything about it. But we should at least try to =

have our packages licensed as we like them licensed.

Dani=EBl