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Licensing of LCL vs IDE (was: A few hacky patches (resent))

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Alexander Klenin
Brad Campbell wrote 9 lines
Alexander Klenin wrote: > Sorry, I mistakenly thought you are changing IDE find dialog, not LCL one. > BTW, I think it makes sense to port features form IDE to LCL dialog > and then use it in the IDE. I've looked into that in several places, but licensing becomes an issue. The LCL is LGPL with the exception clause, while the IDE seems to be generally GPL.

Hm, this is a serious issue I never thought of before. I suspect that IDE->LCL code migration already happened in the past, and may not be legitimate.

Attn Lazarus developers -- what do you think/recommend?

Alexander S. Klenin

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