[fpc-devel] copyright infringement in FPC code

[Marco van de Voort]

> > I have heard that there is software that can do code comparisons to
> > find infringements (I'm thinking of a article between Linux and Minix
> > code).  Anybody got such a program available so we can possibly do a
> > automated comparison.  I'll try and find out what was used to compare
> > Minix and Linux code.
> Using this software to find out and eliminate "stolen" code sequences in 
> a way that the software will not find them sounds more like trying to 
> obfuscate something...
> 
> OTOH if two intelligent persons get a not too complex task (e.g. write 
> some lines of code) they are very likely to create a similar solution.

Yes specially for stringroutines, since nearly all are based on pchars for
speed, and due to the weird requirements (like the #0..#31 limitation of
e.g. tstringlist)