[fpc-devel]license

[Jonas Maebe]

On 5-jul-04, at 10:26, Rimgaudas Laucius wrote:

> for stupid question. I did not noticed that Lesser GPL is also called
> Library GPL.

It's not a stupid question, because it's a modified LGPL. The 
modification is stated in the file rtl/COPYING.FPC of the sources:

***
The source code of the Free Pascal Runtime Libraries and packages are
distributed under the Library GNU General Public License
(see the file COPYING) with the following modification:

- object files and libraries linked into an application may be
   distributed without source code.
***

The main reason is that shared linking doesn't work yet on all 
platforms, and is simply more or less impossible under Dos without all 
sorts of hacks/extenders.


Jonas