[llvm-dev] RFC: Improving license & patent issues in the LLVM community

[Jonas Maebe via llvm-dev]

Joachim Durchholz via llvm-dev wrote on Fri, 30 Oct 2015:

> Am 29.10.2015 um 13:30 schrieb Alex Bradbury via llvm-dev:
>> so that
>> any incidental similarities can't be accused of being due to copying
>> code directly.
>
> From what I see in the SVN, FreePascal is written in Pascal, so  
> accusations of verbatim copying from the LLVM sources wouldn't work.

A "derivative work" in copyright is much broader than verbatim  
copying. Plain translation into another language also falls under it  
(try translating a Harry Potter book and publishing it yourself :)


Jonas