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

[Tiziano De Togni]

John Stoneham ha scritto:

> apparent that he came to his conclusions as to the copyright issue at
> the beginning of last year while still at CodeGear. I think it's
> interesting that he never raised those issues then. It is also clear
> that he has no clue about copyright law. It seems he believes that if
> a unit does the same thing in the same way as another copyrighted
> unit, there is a copyright violation somewhere involved. You can't
> copyright an algorithm (and there's still an ongoing debate about
> whether it's actually proper to patent one, although the USPTO does it
> all the time now). But it doesn't help when someone is blowing smoke
> into an already cloudy issue.

I am pleased to read your competent opinion about this matter that I
consider very interesting and relevant (both the opinion and the matter).

Could you please tell me if there is a real chance that CodeGear asks 
money for a concrete copyright violation to someone of the FPC or 
Lazarus developers?

And in this case, how this claim could be performed?

thanks
tiziano