[fpc-devel] License of RTL

[Tomas Hajny]

Date sent:      	Thu, 10 Nov 2005 11:40:38 +0300
From:           	"Pavel V. Ozerski" <pavel at insect.mail.iephb.ru>
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Subject:        	Re[2]: [fpc-devel] License of RTL
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Hello Pavel,

> Thursday, November 10, 2005, 10:53:09 AM, you wrote:
> 
> >> Some files of RTL core are under the "full" GPL license, not a
> >> LGPL. Is it a new politics of FPC?
> 
> MvdV> No. Must have been an oversight/bad copy/paste.
> MvdV> If you have more files, don't hesitate to name them. The
> syscallh.inc was MvdV> created by me, so that is certainly a mistake.
> 
> 
> This list of FPC parts which are published under "full" GPL is copied
> from http://freepascal.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=445
> 
> It is not checked by me, only Russian comments are cut.
 .
 .
> RTL\OS2:
> kbdcall.pas, moncall.pas, mouclass.pas, pmgpi.pas, viocall.pas.

These certainly do _not_ refer to GPL, but to LGPL (see for yourself 
;-) ). Would you be so kind and post an update to the forum mentioned 
above, please? The forum seems to be Russian only, and I don't have a 
Russian keyboard installed.

Tomas