[lazarus] Helping with the project

[Baeseman, Cliff]

The Lazarus LCL Lazarus Component Library is under the LGPL with the IDE
being GPL'd code
to comply with the Free Pascal VCL which is distributed under the LGPL also
I was under the impression.

Is that correct MVC?

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Van Canneyt [mailto:michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2000 9:03 AM
To: lazarus at miraclec.com
Subject: Re: [lazarus] Helping with the project




On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Dalton Calford wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> My name is Dalton Calford and I am one of the founding members of the
Interbase
> Developers Initiative.
> 
> With the current upheavels at Inprise in regards to Interbase, alot of
> developers are joining us and asking how to help.
> 
> One of the other founding members, Jason Wharton, has asked me to contact
you to
> get your opinion on the porting of his code base to Lazarus.  He has a
very
> extensive group of components that he releases as binaries to commercial
> entities, and as full source to anybody who asks as long as they pay him
his
> fees when they start making money.
> In the past week, in order to become even more friendly to the open source
> movement, he has opening started releasing his code on a "trustware"
model.
> 
> He wants to know how/if it is possible to merge his code base into yours
while
> still retaining an income from it (he still has a family and mortgage to
deal
> with).  In the interbase community, his code base is considered the best
for
> database access.
> 
> As to the helping with the lazarus project, I have been directly contacted
by 35
> different developers whose code is well known in the Delphi community.
They are
> all offering to help, as long as they are given some guidence as to what
needs
> to be addressed.
> 
> So I guess what I am asking for is, can the project be helped by throwing
more
> developers at it, and if so, where and who will coordinate it?  

The Lazarus project can certainly be helped by more people, there is still a
lot
of work to do. I think that the coordinating persons are generally agreed to
be
 Cliff Baseman,
 Michael Hess
and
 Shane Miller.
I think they would be happy to provide the necessary guidelines.

As to the Interbase components, I think that:
1) Integrating it in Lazarus is not really an option, since it is GPL'ed
code and
   hence you cannot ask money for it. But the others may disagree on this.
   IMHO the best thing would be simply to make sure that it compiles with
Free Pascal,
   and provide it as an extra...
   
2) If the components are non-visible, then they should better be
incorporated
   into the lower-level FCL (Free Component Library); the database layer
   (TDataset etc) is implemented in the FCL. If that is the case, I would be
   very willing to help, since I use Interbase a lot for my (payed) work =-)

   Some time ago I made some changes to FreeUDF interbase components so they
   compiled with Free Pascal, I see no reason why it couldn't be done with
   these components as well.

Michael.

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