[fpc-devel] LGPL vs BSD

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Fri, 4 Aug 2006, schreef Marco van de Voort:

> > Or, in case of fpc - build those specific applications with it, which
> > are not common enough for a community to write.
> 
> I prefer I could tell some vendor "implement this embedded architecture", and if you
> submit this back then I grant you a commercial license to integrate the
> compiler into your IDE, without open sourcing the IDE, and for that purpose
> alone. (more or less the GNU mechanism)

You can do this. Of course, you need agreement within the FPC team, but 
there is no reason why we would need a GNU like copyright assignment 
procedure for that.

Daniël