[fpc-pascal] License question about some sysutils .inc files

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Michael Green wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> 
> I just happened to see the license on fina.inc / finah.inc and a few other
> includes by Gertjan Schouten, which are used in SysUtils
> (/rtl/objpas/sysutils). They're released under the GNU GPL, but don't mention
> anything about the special exception/persmission (COPYING.FPC).
> 
> So, what would be the status of using SysUtils in a non-GPL (or compatible)
> licensed product in this case?

The license is wrong; It is an omission, it should have been changed to the
FPC a long time go; at the time, we probably simply forgot to check some of
the files. I'll fix it tomorrow.

Michael.