[fpc-devel]Delphi compiler Sibyl

[rstar at mnet-online.de]

Marco van de Voort wrote:

 >>Some years ago there was a Delphi compiler named Sibyl
 >>for OS2 from a German company. Now it's under GPL.
 >
 >
 > No, if you read well, you'll see that only the modifications of the 
author
 > are under GPL.
 >
 > It does say something about (parts of) Sybil being published on the 
homepage,
 > but not strictly that they are GPL.

???

The sources are marked as GPL:

Example:


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  º     Sibyl Visual Development Environment 
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  º     Copyright (C) 1995,99 SpeedSoft Germany,   All rights reserved. 
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  º Sibyl Integrated Development Environment (IDE) 
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  º Object-oriented development system. 
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  º Copyright (C) 1995,99 SpeedSoft GbR, Germany 
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  º This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 
it  º
  º under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published 
by  º
  º the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or 
(at    º
  º your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the 
hope  º
  º that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the 
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  º implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 
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  º PURPOSE. 
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  º See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have 
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  º received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this 
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  º program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 
Temple  º
  º Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. 
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  º In summary the original copyright holders (SpeedSoft) grant you the 
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  º right to: 
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  º - Freely modify and publish the sources provided that your 
modification  º
  º   is entirely free and you also make the modified source code 
available  º
  º   to all for free (except a fee for disk/CD production etc). 
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  º - Adapt the sources to other platforms and make the result available 
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  º   for free. 
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  º Under this licence you are not allowed to: 
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  º - Create a commercial product on whatever platform that is based on 
the  º
  º   whole or parts of the sources covered by the license agreement. 
The    º
  º   entire program or development environment must also be published 
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  º   under the GNU General Public License as entirely free. 
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  º - Remove any of the copyright comments in the source files. 
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  º - Disclosure any content of the source files or use parts of the 
source  º
  º   files to create commercial products. You always must make 
available    º
  º   all source files whether modified or not. 
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