<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Michael Van Canneyt <<a href="mailto:michael@freepascal.org">michael@freepascal.org</a>> schrieb am Fr., 10. Apr. 2020, 07:44:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On Thu, 9 Apr 2020, fredvs via fpc-pascal wrote:<br>
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> Hello.<br>
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> I have done a fork of fpc fixes_3_2 and made some modification of original<br>
> code.<br>
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> May I distribute the fpc binary of that patched version with the units<br>
> files, ready to use out-of-the-box?<br>
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Yes.<br>
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> Must I add the source of the change done?<br>
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If it is in the compiler, yes. I am not so clear on the RTL/Packages.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For everything that is licensed as "modified LGPL" that is necessary as well (that definitely includes RTL and FCL; the license of the import units is more often than not also "modified LGPL") </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> What I am not allowed to do?<br>
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Change the copyright and put your name on it.<br>
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I'm surprised you want to distribute your own version of the compiler.<br>
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Maybe you could simply share the changes with the FPC team, see if they can<br>
be included in the main compiler/rtl.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have the feeling that I know what it is... </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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