[Lazarus] I ported some components, not sure if I can publish them :-(

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Sat, 17 May 2008 14:30:16 +0200 (CEST)
"Luca Olivetti" <luca at ventoso.org> wrote:

> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 20:05:48 +0200
> > Luca Olivetti <luca at ventoso.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, 16 May 2008 10:15:20 +0200, Florian Klaempfl
> >> <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> >> > Luca Olivetti schrieb:
> >> [...]
> >> >>
> >> >> "Diese Komponenten sind Public Domain, das Urheberrecht liegt
> >> >> aber
> beim Autor."
> >> [...]
> >> >
> >> > In Germany, "public domain" does not exist. One *can not* give
> >> > up the
> copyright. But one can allow unrestricted use.
> >> So what would you think reading that license?
> >
> > You must ask the author to public it under a license that fits
> > better.
> 
> The problem is that the author doesn't reply to my emails :-(

Bad luck.
Without explicit permission you can't be sure, so use it on your own
risk.


> Maybe I could just publish a patch or just publish it to draw his
> attention (I obviously took care of leaving the original copyright
> notice in place).
> 
> @A.J. Venter: the original author is (supposedly) german, I'm an
> italian living in spain


Mattias