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From: "Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
Date: 3 Jul 2006 15:02:34 -0700
Date: 2006-07-03T15:02:34-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1151964154.621992.215550@v61g2000cwv.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.9.1151504878.30988.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org

Preben Randhol wrote:
> Just for the record I'm not against GPL per se, just that I don't like
> posibility that one at some point end up in a quagmire where one cannot
> make anything without a GPL license. That is not Freedom.

It is, for the users of the software. You are forgetting, as
programmers so often do, that the freedom granted by the GPL is not for
the benefit of programmers. If, in the process of granting users the
freedom to run, read, modify, and share software it happens that
programmers are inconvenienced, the FSF does not care. If users wind up
with less software as a result, that is unfortunate, but not so
unfortunate as to require overriding the principles of users' software
freedom.

Remember that without the GPL, it's likely that some users down the
road will be denied the ability to exercise the freedoms that ought to
be theirs. AdaCore has done these users a favor by helping to limit how
much non-free software can be produced.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-03 22:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 171+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-27 10:58 Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 11:48 ` AdaCore ... the Next SCO? Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-27 13:13   ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 15:16     ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 20:14       ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 20:26         ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 16:38     ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-27 17:58       ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28  0:24         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  6:09           ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28  7:45             ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-28 13:07               ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 17:07                 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-29 22:26                   ` Simon Wright
2006-06-30 16:46                     ` Martin Krischik
2006-07-01  8:20                       ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-02 12:10                         ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-28 20:26               ` Simon Wright
2006-06-29 17:45           ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-30  8:55             ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  7:28         ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-28  8:07           ` No relicense everything now! (was: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?) Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 13:14             ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 17:53           ` AdaCore ... the Next SCO? Stephen Leake
2006-06-29 20:31             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-30  8:40               ` M E Leypold
2006-06-30 15:19               ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-29 22:06             ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-30  8:46               ` M E Leypold
2006-06-30 15:21               ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-28  0:18       ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 20:12         ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 22:45           ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 21:54         ` Björn Persson
2006-06-28 22:57           ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  6:06       ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28  7:49         ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-29 17:43       ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-27 23:10     ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-28  2:23       ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 17:40     ` Stephen Leake
2006-06-27 15:00   ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 18:49     ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28  0:06       ` M E Leypold
2006-07-03 22:22         ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-03 23:58           ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 10:19             ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-04 22:13               ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 18:55             ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-04 20:29               ` Simon Wright
2006-07-04 22:34                 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 22:20               ` M E Leypold
2006-07-14 13:11                 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-14 15:14                   ` michael bode
2006-07-14 19:58                   ` M E Leypold
2006-07-17 20:13                     ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-17 21:24                       ` Michael Bode
2006-07-17 22:23                         ` Hyman Rosen
2006-07-18  0:38                           ` M E Leypold
2006-07-18  7:40                             ` michael bode
2006-07-18 10:22                               ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-18 11:55                                 ` michael bode
2006-07-18 19:46                                   ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-07-18 19:55                                     ` Michael Bode
2006-07-18 10:58                               ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-07-18 11:35                                 ` Revocable or non-revocable licenses from AdaCore? (Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-07-18 20:37                                   ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-07-18 12:55                                 ` AdaCore ... the Next SCO? michael bode
2006-07-18 13:26                                   ` Marius Amado-Alves
2006-07-18 19:11                                     ` Michael Bode
2006-07-18 20:33                                       ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-07-20 21:55                                     ` Björn Persson
2006-07-18 14:22                                 ` Hyman Rosen
2006-06-28 14:27       ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 15:22         ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 15:36         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 20:18         ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-29  7:09           ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-29 20:01         ` Björn Persson
2006-06-30  8:52           ` M E Leypold
2006-07-03 22:02         ` Hyman Rosen [this message]
2006-07-03 23:55           ` M E Leypold
2006-07-04 18:07           ` Michael Bode
2006-07-04 22:18             ` M E Leypold
2006-07-18 10:18           ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2006-06-28  5:58   ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 13:04     ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 22:46       ` Simon Wright
2006-06-30  7:01         ` Martin Dowie
2006-07-01  8:48           ` Simon Wright
2006-06-30  8:39         ` M E Leypold
2006-07-01  8:58           ` Simon Wright
2006-06-27 13:46 ` Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch Alex R. Mosteo
2006-06-27 14:40 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 14:52   ` What luck we had M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:13     ` Pascal Obry
2006-06-28 13:39       ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 19:20         ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:40     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28  0:02       ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 18:57   ` Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch Ed Falis
2006-06-28  0:58     ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 19:45       ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 21:10   ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28  1:02     ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 15:00 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-06-27 15:28   ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 15:38     ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 16:40     ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-06-27 17:45       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-06-27 21:18       ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28  0:45         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  0:48         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 10:51         ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2006-06-28 11:14           ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 11:21             ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 12:41               ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 13:36             ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 13:31           ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  0:42       ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 19:24       ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 23:00         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 18:50     ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28  0:50       ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:25     ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28  0:52       ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:39     ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-27 20:47       ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28  0:53         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 18:57         ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28 13:50     ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 14:16       ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 19:14         ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 19:55           ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 19:54       ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-29  6:12       ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2006-06-28 19:22     ` Simon Wright
2006-06-27 18:39 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 19:28   ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-27 19:39     ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:09       ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-27 20:23         ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:53           ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-27 22:53             ` Björn Persson
2006-06-28  5:11               ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28  1:29             ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  1:18         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  6:07         ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 17:58           ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-06-28 18:17             ` Ed Falis
2006-06-28 18:55             ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-30 19:55               ` Preben Randhol
2006-06-28 18:57             ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-28 19:28               ` Frank J. Lhota
2006-06-28 19:38                 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:17             ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 20:48             ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28  1:07     ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 21:07   ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 21:19     ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28  1:40       ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28  1:35     ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 11:57   ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28 18:45     ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:51     ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 20:46       ` Florian Weimer
2006-06-28 23:06         ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 22:44 ` Simon Wright
2006-07-03 18:21 ` Matthew Goulet
2006-07-04  7:21   ` Ludovic Brenta
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2006-07-18 22:02 ` AdaCore ... the Next SCO? Marius Amado-Alves
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