From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-21 17:30:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!jfk3-feed1.news.algx.net!dca6-feed1.news.algx.net!dca6-feed2.news.algx.net!allegiance!nntp.abs.net!news.voicenet.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!newsfeed.onecall.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community Date: 21 Apr 2002 19:30:37 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: <+JjhQCmJYCyP@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <5ee5b646.0204200830.2bd258d2@posting.google.com> <3CC1DEF2.4060204@telepath.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1019435439 25529 192.135.80.34 (22 Apr 2002 00:30:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 00:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22876 Date: 2002-04-21T19:30:37-05:00 List-Id: In article <3CC1DEF2.4060204@telepath.com>, Ted Dennison writes: > tmoran@acm.org wrote: > >>>The GPL is merely a software license that gives users of your software >>>more rights ... >>> >> Different, not More. A set of rights is not one-dimensional with an >> obvious ordering. > > > I'd say different, and almost always more. I've certianly never read a > shrink-wrap software license that gives me as much freedom as the GPL. > Usually they say you can't do anything, and then list a few exceptions > (eg: install on one machine, make one backup copy, etc). The GPL bascily > says I can do anything, then lists a few exceptions. That is in the end-user dimension. The licensing for many commercial libraries included into other products allows modifications to those libraries without distributing those changes. Those libraries allow "more" in the software vendor dimension.