[fpc-devel] Copyrighted material in bugtracker?

Bart bartjunk64 at gmail.com
Sat Oct 5 14:25:30 CEST 2019


On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 1:26 AM Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:


> > What if this piece of code ends up in the compiler?
> > Can Embarcadero (or however they're called these days) sue us?
>
> We'll just have to make sure the code isn't copied.

The problem here is that everyone could have come up with that
solution (given the bugdescription), but now this is tainted.
Similar code already exists in LazUtils, IIRC written by me, and I
have no access to Delphi source code.

-- 
Bart


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