[lazarus] interface decls

Michael Van Canneyt michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Tue Nov 30 03:34:09 EST 1999




On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Curtis White wrote:

> Delphi has the interface files (.int) that are included with the standard
> version (since you don't get the vcl source code). These contain the interface
> definitions for all the vcl classes. But I don't know what the copyright issues
> are with copying them. I don't know if we could copy them directly or not. Since
> they are just interfaces, I can't imagine what the difference would be if we
> copy them or type them ourselves :-) The only way we can be compatible
> with Delphi is to provide the same interfaces. So either way the interfaces
> will look the same. But I think someone should check before we copy them to
> make sure we don't break any copyrights.

The interface declarations also have a copyright statement in them, so it's
unclear what to do.

Michael.






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