[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] PCRE

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 Nov 2007, at 23:13, L wrote:

> The fact that the freepascal compiler is distributed with a license
> called GPL is in fact very much on topic since it relates to the  
> Pascal
> compiler, download, installation, etc.

Quite possibly, and there have in fact been discussions about FPC's  
licensing on fpc-pascal and/or fpc-devel in the past.

Statements in the spirit of "license X sucks because it is less free  
than license Y" (no matter how much you consider that to be an  
objective truth) however do not invite discussion about the  
consequences of FPC's licensing, but rather provoke emotionally laden  
flamewars about the generic properties of various licenses, and later  
on probably the people/organisations behind hem.

You can do that here or on Slashdot if you want to, but not on fpc- 
pascal/fpc-devel.


Jonas