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Michael Van Canneyt
to Unknown author: Well, this gonna be bothering. If I was you guy, I would ask Borland Himself and may be…
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At 09:44 99-11-30 +0100, you wrote: > >The interface declarations also have a copyright statement in them, so it's >unclear what to do. > >Michael. Well, this gonna be bothering. If I was you guy, I would ask Borland Himself and may be consulting Richard Stallman for opinion on that issue.

I asked borland about Turbo Vision several times, and I never got a reply. Somehow I suspect they won't answer on this question either.

Michael.

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The interface declarations also have a copyright statement in them, so it's unclear what to do. Michael.

Well, this gonna be bothering.

If I was you guy, I would ask Borland Himself and may be consulting Richard Stallman for opinion on that issue.

Just my $0.02

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Kevin Berry

I'd imagine they'd only complain if they started
losing revenue because of Lazarus. Or if Lazarus
became a commercial product (ie. making money) that competed with Delphi.

At the moment an open source project like Lazarus just makes Object Pascal more popular.

They probably can't reply to this one because it goes against their copyright but they actually permit it for now. Later on they may well have something to say about it.

I personally feel that "no reply" means they are
consenting to the project.

Just my 2c.

Cheers,
Kevin.

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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999 wrote: > At 09:44 99-11-30 +0100, you wrote: > > > >The interface declarations also have a copyright statement in them, so it's > >unclear what to do. > > > >Michael. > > Well, this gonna be bothering. > > If I was you guy, I would ask Borland Himself and may be consulting Richard > Stallman for opinion on that issue. I asked borland about Turbo Vision several times, and I never got a reply. Somehow I suspect they won't answer on this question either. Michael.

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Michael A. Hess
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I'd imagine they'd only complain if they started losing revenue because of Lazarus. Or if Lazarus became a commercial product (ie. making money) that competed with Delphi.

Hmmmmmm. Let's see. Get FPC and Lazarus for free and it will work on Win32, DOS, Linux, OS/2, 68K, and hopefully FreeBSD and Solaris soon. Or pay some money any money for Delphi to work in Win32 & Linux. I don't think there is any question that it will hurt their bottom line. Unless they give theirs away free as well.

;-)

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They probably can't reply to this one because it goes against their copyright but they actually permit it for now. Later on they may well have something to say about it. I personally feel that "no reply" means they are consenting to the project.

Ouch! That would not be can just announce that
they never received such a request and you would have no grounds to prove otherwise. Without written confirmation, on paper not an email, it could be very costly to assume permission.

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Kevin Berry

Hi Michael,

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> I personally feel that "no reply" means they are > consenting to the project. Ouch! That would not be can just announce that they never received such a request and you would have no grounds to prove otherwise. Without written confirmation, on paper not an email, it could be very costly to assume permission.

What I meant was.... For now they probably don't have an objection. But they'll slam the door shut when it suits them.

Of course, the best thing would be to get their
permission... But how?? :-)

BTW, I've been watching the group for a while and I'm keen on getting involved at some stage. I've just installed RedHat Linux at home for the first time, I'm working through some hardware config issues (just
bought an external modem to replace my WINMODEM
*ARGH*) and then I'll start some coding maybe :-)

Cheers,
Kevin.

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