[Lazarus] components\aggpas\gpc - non-commercial use only

[Ondrej Pokorny]

On 17.05.2016 10:01, Denis Kozlov wrote:
> On 17 May 2016 at 10:15, Graeme Geldenhuys 
> <mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk <mailto:mailinglists at geldenhuys.co.uk>> 
> wrote:
>
>     This was discussed before and the licensing information (readme) was
>     updated. The GPC code is totally optional and NOT used by default in
>     AggPas at all. So yes it is fine being there.
>
>
> Does it make sense to include NON-free components in Lazarus distribution?
How do you define "free"? Is GPL free?

> Similarly, many icons were recently removed from Lazarus because they 
> were NON-free, even though optional to use.
They were not optional to use :)

> This breaks the paradigm and consistency that FPC, Lazarus and LCL are 
> licensed under modified LGPL 
> <http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/licensing>. It puts developer into 
> a tricky situation - does one needs to check every source code file to 
> ensure it can be included in their code base?

You are mixing up 2 different things. See 
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Faq#Licensing

Lazarus itself is not licensed under modified LGPL but GPL/LGPL. It's 
LCL that uses modified LGPL. Third-party components in "components" 
directory have different licenses as well. E.g. some are GPL only (e.g. 
CodeTools).

Ondrej
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