[Lazarus] Embarcadero vs Lazarus/FPC (Oracle vs Google)

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Andrew Brunner schrieb:

> FPC and it's core design have been around prior 
> to Embarcadero's purchase of Delphi from Inprise.  At the point of 
> purchase Embarcadero was responsible for objecting to FPC 
> and they could have avoided said purchase.
> 
> Both FPC and Lazarus predate Embarcadero's Delphi.  So any verbatim code 
> copying would have to be relatively recent.   Since Lazarus  is cross 
> platform, only Windows based widgets would be the source of ANY 
> potential threat to ligation.  So Lazarus worst case scenero is that 
> only PART of the project could EVER be called into question.

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