<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Jonas Maebe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be" target="_blank">jonas.maebe@elis.ugent.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 11/08/16 20:25, silvioprog wrote:<br>
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But now I have a question: many Free Pascal programmers are Delphi<br>
programmers too, having code that can be compiled in both compilers, and<br>
sometimes they need to debug deeply, entering into the compiler code and<br>
looking at it, so, can't a programmer contribute with Free Pascal in<br>
that situation? If so, I have no more questions.<br>
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The compiler code is no problem, since the Delphi compiler code is not open source. For the RTL: if they looked at parts of the Delphi RTL source code, then they cannot contribute to the same functionality in the FPC RTL.</blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hm... now I understood and fully agreed. Since Delphi's TEncoding is part of its RTL and I've looked at its implementation to understand why I can't get leaks compiling my code using it, and there is no definition in copyright of when exactly a work is independent and when it is derivative, so anything I do can be understood as rewrite.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>--<br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Silvio Clécio</div></div></div>
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