[Lazarus] [OT] About licences

[Marco van de Voort]

On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 03:28:56PM +0100, de_jean_7777 wrote:
> 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.

My bad. I formulated it incorrectly. I meant the designtime libraries of
components and everything they link to (which is quite often the main
library too). Not designtime generated code and/or .dfms.

Though the bit of redistributing lazarus might have hinted on that already.