[fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

Jonas Maebe napisał(a):
> That is only required if people statically link to your units. If they 
> compile them into a shared library and link against that, they do not 
> have to open their sources. That's the whole point of the LGPL. 

Yet, in case of a library that is based around classes that would be a 
real pain :-).

 > The FPC
> RTL additionally also allows static linking, as long as you make your 
> changes to the statically linked units (which are under the FPC RTL 
> license) available.

That's nice.

>> 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.
> 
> That is not possible with the GPL, LGPL or even the FPC RTL license. If 
> you require such credit, people will also not be able to use your 
> library in a (L)GPL product, because the resulting license will be 
> incompatible with the (L)GPL..

Understood. But I guess I can live with that :-). Yet, that brings up 
the idea of double-licencing -- licencing the library as (L)GPL for use 
with (L)GPL software, and a parallel licence for use in closed source 
software in which case attribution is needed. I guess that would be 
possible...
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