[fpc-pascal] Name for our license

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Sun Jun 21 19:34:27 CEST 2009


In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> > Library from Free Pascal" or "The same license as the Lazarus
> > Component Library".
> 
> I to honest I do not understand the ins and outs of the various licenses,
> but I read the following on the wikipedia site. The the following (below)
> mean that LGPL v3 license is similar to the "modified LGPL v2" that FPC
> and Lazarus use?  If so, then what about moving to the LGPL v3 license
> instead?
> 
> "Version 3 of the LGPL is constructed by applying a GPL linking exception
> to version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL)."

No it does not, I think. It just says that the same process to construct LGPL3
from GPL3 is made as was to make LGPL2 from GPL2.




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