[Lazarus] Lazarus platform "popularity contest"

[Ger Remmers]

On Thursday 12 August 2010 03:57:59 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> Ger Remmers wrote:
> > I understand what you are saying, but no, it's none of Florians business
> > (sorry Florian) to know what I'm using, or how I''m using it.
> 
> Actually I don't think that's true. I don't think that FPC has been
> placed in the public domain so Florian (or somebody) still retains
> nominal ownership and copyright.

Of course, the source code remains property of the developers.

> As such he emphatically DOES have a
> right to know that you're using the compiler and its related subprojects
> in accordance with the licensing terms (LGPL etc.), and that's probably
> particularly important in the case of e.g. the TurboPower stuff.
> 
> What is more I think that he has that "right to know" irrespective of
> your views or consent. Whether I like that or not is irrelevant.

And here we disagree. No developer has "the right" to know what I use the 
program for as long as I don't claim the program to be my product.

> 
> I'm sure that you're aware that there is a small but growing number of
> companies who have been forced to admit that they were abusing the
> (L)GPL: do you think that they consented to the software's owners
> finding out that they were doing that?

I wasn't aware of that ( I don't keep tabs on the software world).

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Regards

Ger