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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Date: 1999/02/06 Message-ID: <1999Feb5.193912.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441197112 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36B856E4.D921C1D@bton.ac.uk> <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner> <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.171318.1@eisner> <79dp2o$s2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36ba730b.35540068@ <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 918261572 8541 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: Digital Equipment Computer User's Society Followup-To: <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Organization: LJK Software Lines: 21 In article <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dewar@gnat.com writes: > In article <36bb301f.2303870@news.pacbell.net>, > tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) wrote: > >> As Larry points out, reading and feeling comfortable >> with, or having your lawyer read and agree to, someone's >> idiosyncratic restrictions on their "free" software is >> often harder than reinvention. > > A good argument for *not* inventing idiosyncratic > restrictions, but rather using standard documents like > the (at this stage) very well understood GPL. Precisely. And for clarification, I am not intellectually opposed to paying lawyers to look at licenses. I have done it, but only in cases where software in question was much more valuable to me than a set of subprograms. Larry Kilgallen