[fpc-pascal] Notice: Possible copyright infringements in FPC code base

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 5 Jan 2008, Chris Kirkpatrick wrote:

> 
> 
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > So this is one area where you, our users, can make a big difference and help
> > us
> > in preventing this from happening in the future, as well as with notifying
> > us as
> > soon as possible when it does happen (or when you know it happened in the
> > past).
> > Most importantly: please ensure that you *never* submit patches based on
> > code copyrighted by third parties.
> >
> > For the FPC Team,
> >
> > Michael.
> >
> >
> >   
> On browsing through the code of $FPCdir/packages/fcl-db/src/dbase/dbf.pas I
> came across the following (line 20-22)
> 
> // If you got a compilation error here or asking for dsgnintf.pas, then just
> add
> // this file in your project:
> // dsgnintf.pas in 'C: \Program
> Files\Borland\Delphi5\Source\Toolsapi\dsgnintf.pas'
> 
> Should this be removed? Does it infringe copyright? Is it even useful?

No, this is not a copyright infringement; TDBF needs to compile with older
Delphi versions, and in Delphi 5 certain functions were in dsgnintf.pas,
a unit that should normally never end up in an end-user program.

Michael.