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

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Tue, 17 May 2016 16:14:01 +0300
Denis Kozlov <dezlov at gmail.com> wrote:

>[...]it is not natural to require developer to check *every
> component or part* for licensing terms, which can be hundreds or even
> thousands of individual parts.

Hundreds? You only need to check one per package.

 
> That is why I thought it could be clearer if most of Lazarus/FPC code base
> is under the same licensing schema, while everything that falls outside of
> it could be easily discovered (this is where an idea of placing such code
> into a dedicated folder came about). This kind of approach would
> drastically simply code base slicing based on licensing terms, that is what
> Debian packagers have to do with Lazarus and many other packages.

For Debian maintainers and other third party bundles we should gather
the abbreviated license information in the components/readme.txt, so
they can easier pick the cherries.

Mattias