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

[Roberto Padovani]

I've been following this topic from the beginning and I took the time
to read the (questionable) blog from the ex-CG developer.

I'm interested in it because aside my personal enjoyment, I started
using freepascal+lazarus where I work in order to quickly solve some
needs like data analysis, algorithms benchmarking before
implementation, controlling our hardware from the pc, and so
on...related to the hardware we design (I'm a hardware engineer).

Well, what kind of implication should I expect if, for any reason,
things turn to bad?
Those implication suggested by the blogger are so serious that if I
were trusting him, I would immediately erase all disks with my pascal
stuff and buy new ones.

R#


2008/1/16, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>:
> On 16/01/2008, Tiziano De Togni <tizzziano at tiscali.it> wrote:
> >
> > 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?
>
> FPC developers approached them (CodeGear) and took it on ourselves to
> solve the issue. We found a automated tool to help, listed the suspect
> code and fixed it by rewriting the suspect code. CodeGear has nothing
> to complain about as far as I can see!  FPC developers did not wait to
> be reprimanded - they fixed it as soon as they found out about it.
>
> Regards,
>   - Graeme -
>
>
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