[Lazarus] [OT] About licences

[de_jean_7777]

On 26.3.2011 15:14, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> The only problem is designtime code. This links into the IDE, and thus
> touched the GPL. However, the GPL only activates on distribution, so unless
> you plan to release Lazarus with MPL stuff preinstalled, there is no
> problem.

I don't think this is correct. The GPL does not cover output of a 
program (e.g. code automatically created by the IDE). Only if the 
program used code from the IDE (including IDE units into the program), 
then it would fall under GPL. As far as I know, all a program needs is 
the LCL, and should normally not include any code from the IDE.