Well, look in the file that it standard header points to. There it mentions what is different to the standard LGPL. But yes I agree that one should insert that notice as part of Lazarus IDE menu options. It will be a small change. If it's not done after Christmas, I'll implement it next week. (I'm away for the weekend)

Graeme.

I suggested to add an option to insert notice of modifiedLGPL license to Lazarus (http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/view.php?id=7995). But it seems, AFAIK, that there's no standardized notice of modifiedLGPL as LGPL and GPL does. The sources of FCL and LCL points to a file.

Is there one?

Luiz

I have no problem implementing it, I just want to know what the value should be of the lisModifiedLGPLNotice constant (i.e. what text should be inserted).

Vincent

[...note I cross posted this to the lazarus mailing list, because it doesn't really belong in the FPC-devel mailing list...]

OK, I see what you mean, Vincent. What about... basically the LGPL header with the modification.

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{ Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version with the following modification:

As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under terms of your choice,
provided that you also meet, for each linked independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend this exception to your version of the library, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Library General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. }
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Regards,
- Graeme -

I think is good enough. I would just add a description and contact tag in the header.

The header would be:

<description>
Copyright (C) <year> <author>
<contact>