[fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Kornel Kisielewicz wrote:

> Michael Van Canneyt napisa(a):
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, L505 wrote:
>> 
>>>>> What does 'advertise' mean in this context ?
>>> Take a look at Stallman's page about FreeBSD license and how freebsd 
>>> "advertises
>>> Berkley and California unreasonably" or whatever. Personally I'm more of a 
>>> FreeBSD
>>> style guy and I might even switch to FreeBSD over linux because of 
>>> religion.
>> 
>> That page is a load of b*s*, because the LGPL requires just the same:
>> your program must show the LGPL.
>> 
>> Nitpicking pure style. It's the spirit of the license that counts:
>> Free software must remain free, and you must give credit where it's due.
>> 
>> The rest is food for lawyers without work.
>
> Ugh, sorry to drop into this thread, but that reminded me of a problem I 
> have. I'm not much oriented in licences, hence I ask your help -- I created a 
> collection of FPC units, game-dev oriented, and I wanted to release them to 
> the public for I (and maybe only myself ^_^) think they might be useful for 
> others. After little tought I decided on LGPL - but a friend of mine brought 
> to my attention, that people using the library will still be forced to open 
> their sources if using my library -- which is not what I wanted.

The FPC license explicitly allows this.

>
> What I want is to allow true freedom of using that library -- eg. for a 
> closed-source commercial product too. The only thing I would like is that I 
> am given credit for my work -- if a game uses the libraries, I want to be 
> noted somewhere.
>
> I heard something about the FPC RTL licence -- maybe thats the type of 
> licence I need? Also, what would you guys suggest?

You can use the FPC RTL license for that. It is LGPL, but explicitly
allows the use in closed-source software.

Michael.