[Lazarus] New competition for Lazarus

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Reinier Olislagers wrote:

>> the project is not even GPL or other open source licenses.
>> They don't do it for science, just for money:
>> http://www.pilotlogic.com/sitejoom/index.php/wiki/84-wiki/codetyphon-studio/72-codetyphon-about
> 
>>From that page:
> "This Project is licensed as: Freeware."
> also, as mentioned before, the IDE is GPL so it doesn't matter what they
> put on their site, it will remain GPL.

I'm not saying I don't trust them, but I noticed the "Freeware" 
designation and was slightly uneasy. Apart from anything else my own 
feeling is that while they might say that it's /distributed/ as freeware 
they should still say that the /license/ is GPL etc. since that 
propagates to derivatives.

On the other hand they do prominently say that it's a derivative of 
Lazarus. I suggest that somebody prints the page that does that and gets 
it notarised, don't rely on being able to get a copy in the future from 
archive.org since in some jurisdictions that's considered "hearsay" and 
isn't admissible evidence.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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