Hi!

Some years ago there was a Delphi compiler named Sibyl for OS2 from a German company. Now it's under GPL.

Can be found at http://members.chello.at/webstar/

I think there are interesting concepts.

Some years ago there was a Delphi compiler named Sibyl for OS2 from a German company. Now it's under GPL.

No, if you read well, you'll see that only the modifications of the author are under GPL.

It does say something about (parts of) Sybil being published on the homepage, but not strictly that they are GPL.

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are under GPL. It does say something about (parts of) Sybil being published on the

homepage,

but not strictly that they are GPL.

???

The sources are marked as GPL:

Example:

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º Sibyl Visual Development Environment
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º Copyright (C) 1995,99 SpeedSoft Germany, All rights reserved. º
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º Sibyl Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
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º Object-oriented development system.
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º Copyright (C) 1995,99 SpeedSoft GbR, Germany
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º This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it º
º under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as published by º
º the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at º
º your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope º
º that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the º
º implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR º
º PURPOSE.
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º See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have º
º received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this º
º program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple º
º Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
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º In summary the original copyright holders (SpeedSoft) grant you the º
º right to:
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º - Freely modify and publish the sources provided that your modification º
º is entirely free and you also make the modified source code available º
º to all for free (except a fee for disk/CD production etc). º
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º - Adapt the sources to other platforms and make the result available º
º for free.
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º Under this licence you are not allowed to:
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º - Create a commercial product on whatever platform that is based on the º
º whole or parts of the sources covered by the license agreement. The º
º entire program or development environment must also be published º
º under the GNU General Public License as entirely free. º
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º - Remove any of the copyright comments in the source files. º
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º - Disclosure any content of the source files or use parts of the source º
º files to create commercial products. You always must make available º
º all source files whether modified or not.
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Then it is ok I assume, I only didn't get that idea from the webpage ;-)

I have these sources since some years.
Since the start of project Megido (a predecessor of Lazarus) to be exact.

The biggest problem with them is that they're not Delphi compatible enough. They work fine, but are not usable as-is.

Michael.