[fpc-pascal] Vehicle management

[wkitty42 at windstream.net]

On 05/08/2017 12:09 PM, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> On 08/05/17 16:00, wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:
>
>> as it is GPL, source code availability is required... that author has no
>> choice but to supply it...
>
> Yes, but it looks as though he's been asked in the past and has claimed that "it
> needed tidying up":

that doesn't matter... you should get the code used to build what you received 
no matter how ugly it is...

> that was a couple of years ago. However we're not at all inclined to let him
> off the hook, since we take very little pleasure in having to dig out a
> Windows system to run one poxy program... even if it does save us £1000 at a
> main dealer.

i hear that :)

> And being able to demonstrate that his VB code could could be made portable
> without a great deal of work would, I think, be in everybody's interest.

seems logical :)

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