In our previous episode, James Buren said:
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I have some questions about the RTL and FPC and how it effects what
license I can use for my source.
1) Does FPC impose any license restrictions for the programs I compile
with it?
Only via the RTL.
2) Does the RTL impose a license restriction if all I do is link my
program to it?
LGPL with static linking exception. See COPYING.FPC in your distribution.
3) Any thing else I should know about the license conditions?
Some of the header sets in packages/ can have other licenses, usually more liberal, or MPL-LGPL dual license. The external packages that are linked to (like mysql) can have pretty much any license, GPL and worse.
4) Finally, are there any good books or similar that would help with
learning the free pascal implementation of extensions to the original
pascal? All I seem to have to go on is a basic tutorial introduction and
the reference manual for the compiler.
No, but you can use most Delphi sources (the core dialect roughly up to D7) since FPC's pedigree is more oriented towards Turbo Pascal-Delphi. The extensions relative to those are relative minor.
If you have extensive standard or ISO Pascal sources, Scott Moore's page has a reasonable list of differences between Turbo Pascal derivatives and standard Pascal.
