Wud be a very narrow vertical market if he did and IBO probably deceases

----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Borrie" <helebor@...>
To: <IBObjects@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [IBO] Borland selling Delphi


> At 04:31 PM 11/02/2006, Hans wrote:
>>IBO would be under GNU and thus no income to Jason, I think. Right ?
>
> Not unless Jason open sources IBO under GPL or the LGPL (and I think
> Hell would freeze over before that happened!). As it stands, the
> boot is on the other foot. You'd violate the Lazarus licence if you
> distributed IBO apps that were compiled in it, unfortunately. You
> can only use components that have an open source licence that is
> compatible with GPL or LGPL.
>
> People shouldn't be using the Jedi components with Lazarus, either,
> for the same reason. They do, of course.
>
> Helen
>
>
>
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