[lazarus] Nice talk...

[Peter Vreman]

> Dalton Calford wrote:
> > 
> > Beware the marketing spin and do not sign anything and be VERY careful
> > as to copywrite or shrink wrap license traps.
> 
> I see the cooporation as being limited on both parts. It was more or
> less with the idea of helping us get Lazarus to work with CLX in it's
> open source license format. It was never with the intention that we
> would contribute to their product only that we would be able to
> incorporate Kylix GPL'ed code with the Lazarus code and IDE.
> 
> Will the dialog and corporation happen?     I don't know.
> 
> Can we do it if we want to?    That is even more of the question. Since
> the FCL, RTL, LCL, etc. are a modified LGPL so that commercial products
> can be built I don't know that we could even integrate CLX marginally
> unless it was a totally different branch and didn't use the FCL or LCL
> to produce products. Then it could be just a GPL'ed product which the
> CLX code is under.

The only thing i can think of is that lazarus supports building applications that use the
CLX. Lazarus and FPC things should stay clean from CLX dependencies.