Re: and visual library once again

["Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com>]

> Szymon,
>
> > right, but the GPL licence isnt't what I need, and that't why I'm asking
> > if really using GNAT the program have to be on the GPL licence.
>
> I pretty well understood what you wanted ;), but note that there is so
> much confusion on this issue. All I have replied to you is just what you
> have asked. You want to sell your program, no problem with GNAT GPL.
>

Yes he can sell his program under the GPL license (as required by GNAT
GPL).

But it is important to remind anyone asking such a question that they
can sell the program ONLY if they give a copy of the source code to the
customer they sell it to (including the right of that customer to give
the source and binary to anyone else they want per the GPL).  That's a
pretty big difference for most people who "sell their programs". It can
lead to the immediate termination of your ability to sell any other
copies of the program to anyone else in many markets.

I'm actually a big supporter of the GPL and look forward to the day (5
to 100 years from now) when all (non-classified) computer programs will
be GPL'd or it's future equivalent.  However, in the present, there are
a lot of people for whom selling a program under the GPL would be
commercial suicide. If they need the income from the program to
survive, that is a pretty big problem.

Steve