[fpc-devel] Licensing of packages

[Daniël Mantione]

Hi!

Several packages have been added recently. I would like to urge people to 
be a bit more strict on the licensing issue, i.e. the md4 unit contains 
this message:

  Unix SMB/CIFS implementation.
  a implementation of MD4 designed for use in the SMB authentication protocol
  Copyright (C) Andrew Tridgell 1997-1998.

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

It's LGPL, but no static linking exception, and thus undermindes the 
static linking possibilities of FPC. This is IMHO unnecessary. 
Asking permission is usually no big deal (I did it with the hermen/ptcpas 
stuff). Further, while it is nice to credit the Samba team, but an md4 
implementation can be done without someone else owning copyrights, which 
might even be already the case here.

Of course there will be interfaces to external packages which will have 
copyrights we cannot do anything about it. But we should at least try to 
have our packages licensed as we like them licensed.

Daniël