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Copyrighted material in bugtracker?

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Kai Burghardt
to Bart

Ahoy!

Bart wrote
It appears that this is coe copied from some Delphi version.

In general, I side with the FSF. Citing code - i.e. a /small/ excerpt _naming_ the source - is legit. No software patents!

Sincerely yours Kai Burghardt

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Kai Burghardt
Kai Burghardt wrote 7 lines
Ahoy! On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Bart wrote: > It appears that this is coe copied from some Delphi version. In general, I side with the FSF. Citing code - i.e. a /small/ excerpt _naming_ the source - is legit. No software patents!

I tend to agree on this, I think this is harmless.

You'd have to throw away large parts of stackoverflow if this was enforced rigorously.

Michael.

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Bart
to Michael Van Canneyt
PM Michael Van Canneyt wrote
I tend to agree on this, I think this is harmless. You'd have to throw away large parts of stackoverflow if this was enforced rigorously.

What if this piece of code ends up in the compiler? Can Embarcadero (or however they're called these days) sue us?

Bart

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Bart
Bart wrote 10 lines
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:52 PM Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > I tend to agree on this, I think this is harmless. > > You'd have to throw away large parts of stackoverflow if this was enforced > rigorously. What if this piece of code ends up in the compiler? Can Embarcadero (or however they're called these days) sue us?

We'll just have to make sure the code isn't copied.

Michael.

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Bart
to Michael Van Canneyt
AM Michael Van Canneyt wrote
> What if this piece of code ends up in the compiler? > Can Embarcadero (or however they're called these days) sue us? We'll just have to make sure the code isn't copied.

The problem here is that everyone could have come up with that solution (given the bugdescription), but now this is tainted. Similar code already exists in LazUtils, IIRC written by me, and I have no access to Delphi source code.

Bart

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Michael Van Canneyt
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Bart wrote 11 lines
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 1:26 AM Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > What if this piece of code ends up in the compiler? > > Can Embarcadero (or however they're called these days) sue us? > > We'll just have to make sure the code isn't copied. The problem here is that everyone could have come up with that solution (given the bugdescription), but now this is tainted.

Why ?
As you write:everyone could have come up with that solution.

For some problems, there is only 1 reasonable solution.

If we follow the reasoning leading to your remark, I must stop working on FPC on the spot.

I have gone through most parts of the RTL and VCL at some point in my career when debugging.
So I am totally tainted, and with me probably half the audience on the lists and the forums.

We take care not to copy code.

Expecting that we're all virgin blank sheets of paper is not very realistic. We must be pragmatic in such issues.

Michael.

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