[Lazarus] [OT] About licences

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 31.03.2011 04:09, schrieb waldo kitty:
> On 3/30/2011 08:18, Zaher Dirkey wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl>
>> wrote:
>>
>>     On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:23:12AM +0200, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
>>      > > The (L)GPL with exception bit absolves you from that.
>>      >
>>      > Where does it say that? By "LGPL with exception", I gather you
>> mean like
>>      > the license used by FPC? It that case, there is only a "static
>> linking
>>      > exception". You are still required to donate all modifications
>> to the
>>      > LGPL code though, just like the vanilla LGPL license.
>>
>>     My bad, you are entirely right. The exception absloves you from
>> the clause
>>     that forces dynlinking, not the OSS bits. I don't know what I was
>> thinking.
>>
>>
>> I always feel not free with all this free licenses.
> 
> my thoughts, too... for many years ;)

IMO but IANAL, the free is meant to keep the liberty of the sources but
it's not about that a user is free to do with the sources what he wants.