[fpc-pascal] Why is Free Pascal a blacklisted package on linux distro?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 06 Feb 2012, at 15:29, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> 
>> The article lists all the packages that are blacklisted. Very
>> strangely, Free Pascal is in that list?
> 
> http://repo.parabolagnulinux.org/docs/blacklist.txt
> 
> -> freepascal::includes proprietary code from silicon graphics
> 
> See http://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_view_advanced_page.php?bug_id=20200 for the full story (it's less spectacular than that message may suggest at first sight). It has been resolved in FPC 2.6.0, so if anyone tells them they'll presumably include it.

Sounds like it came out of "Project Fahrenheit" which was supposed to be 
a collaborative effort between SGI and MS. IIRC SGI eventually disposed 
of the documentation on the bonfire at a beach party.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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