[fpc-pascal] Scripting in FPC

[Marco van de Voort]

> Marco van de Voort napisa?(a):
> >>> 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...
> > 
> > As long as you own all rights to the lib this is possible. However if you
> > use parts with different licenses in your lib, this could be troublesome.
> > 
> > (e.g. Jedi-SDL headers or so)
> 
> Actually the Jedi-SDL headers are under the MPL.

This afaik isn't that far off from the FPC version of the LGPL.

> As for the problem itself -- the library uses the headers, but doesn't
> include them, so I guess the problem is not applicable?

Easy to check. Is the implementation empty? Doesn't e.g. wrap and dynload?

One could of course always plead the "trivial" defense in such case.