I hope I haven’t jumped the gun here with the GPL dual licence.
Though I have built and maintained this code, the bug reports, suggestions and occasional code come have from contributors over the years: among them tridenT, lextm, adembaba, Carsten Schuette and others mentioned here: http://jedicodeformat.sourceforge.net/Jcf2changes.html
Releasing the JCF source under GPL or LGPL as well as the existing MPL should not change things: No one else is now going to be folding in into a commercial product because of this. But the lazarus project will be able to use it. I feel that this is a good idea, and I hope this serves users' needs.
I don't spend a lot of time on the JCF any more – I have other commitments, work, software and otherwise. Nevertheless, I am pleased to see JCF still in use almost 10 years later after I started hacking the first version up, and I am aware that occasional work is needed to keep that happening.
The test cases are not under any licence at all; they are used more like data than code, they may compile but they don't do anything except exercise the compiler.
I ask JCF contributors: Are you happy with this GPL move? Does it matter to you? Would you prefer LGPL to GPL (I can't really see much difference that it would make).
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hi, Anthony, it is wonderful to know the FPC community wants to bundle JCF with its IDE. It must be a nice idea. Please do whatever that can maximize the power of open source. I am so happy with this GPL move.
If you would like to refer to this comment somewhere else in this project, copy and paste the following link:
I hope I haven’t jumped the gun here with the GPL dual licence.
Though I have built and maintained this code, the bug reports, suggestions and occasional code come have from contributors over the years: among them tridenT, lextm, adembaba, Carsten Schuette and others mentioned here: http://jedicodeformat.sourceforge.net/Jcf2changes.html
Releasing the JCF source under GPL or LGPL as well as the existing MPL should not change things: No one else is now going to be folding in into a commercial product because of this. But the lazarus project will be able to use it. I feel that this is a good idea, and I hope this serves users' needs.
I don't spend a lot of time on the JCF any more – I have other commitments, work, software and otherwise. Nevertheless, I am pleased to see JCF still in use almost 10 years later after I started hacking the first version up, and I am aware that occasional work is needed to keep that happening.
The test cases are not under any licence at all; they are used more like data than code, they may compile but they don't do anything except exercise the compiler.
I ask JCF contributors: Are you happy with this GPL move? Does it matter to you? Would you prefer LGPL to GPL (I can't really see much difference that it would make).
hi, Anthony, it is wonderful to know the FPC community wants to bundle JCF with its IDE. It must be a nice idea. Please do whatever that can maximize the power of open source. I am so happy with this GPL move.