[lazarus] interface decls

[Marc Weustink]

+ From: michael@[195.207.84.152] [mailto:michael@[195.207.84.152]]On

+ 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.
+
After reading the licence.txt, I think it's not allowed to copy them.

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Since the interface files aren't Redistributables, we better don't copy them

Marc