[fpc-devel] Re: copyright infringement in FPC code

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

The software used between the Linux and Minix case was SIM.  It seems
to be quite cleaver software and hope we can use it too..

<quote>
The software similarity tester SIM version 2.12
[ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/similarity_tester] was used for source
code comparison.
</quote>

I got that information from this website:
  http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/codecomparison/alexey.html


Regards,
  - Graeme -


On 13/11/2007, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> For those that don't follow the Lazarus mailing list.
> It was brought to our attention by a ex-Borland employee (Steve
> Trefethen), that FPC contains some stolen code from Delphi. Especially
> Delphi 4 & 5.
>