[lazarus] Delphi 5 prices!!!

[michael at tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be]

On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Michael A. Hess wrote:

> P Jean dit Bailleul wrote:
> > 
> > It depends on the kind of licence of lazarus. If every lazarus
> > application must be disrtibuted with all sources, i'm sure that it
> > this will pull away a lot of compagnies.
> 
> Well you've brought up a very good point. What is the licensing here? I
> myself plan on producing commercial product and I don't want to have to
> deliver my source. I don't mind delivering the free pascal and the
> lazarus source but I don't want to deliver the source I create using
> them.
> 
> I know we haven't exactly spelled out the license for lazarus yet but
> where is the license for FPC? I'm not in my office with all the source
> right now but I can't find it on the web site at all. So what is the
> license for all of this work????

The compiler comes under the GNU GPL, the RTL is under the LGPL; this means
that you can link the RTL in your applications, and still ask money for the
application;  The final product is in NO WAY endangered by this license.

You can read all this in the file COPYING which is in the RTL sources
directory.

Michael.