[fpc-devel] copyright infringement in FPC code

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 13/11/2007, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
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> I wrote an answer.
>


The scary thing is, I used the tool mentioned earlier (sim_pasc) and
did a few random tests on Lazarus code and Kylix 3 code.  My god,
there is a lot of similar code and no, I'm not talking about the class
interfaces (which are duplicated on purpose).


Even if certain things can only be implemented in similar ways, I
still think it might be worth running this tool, to verify some code.
It's better than nothing, and the tool works much faster than any
human can.  Rather safe than sorry I say.  At least this way, we tried
to get rid of copyrighted copy from our side.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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