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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/05 Message-ID: <1999Nov5.160903.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 544968718 References: <7vnsco$o7s$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <7vphsr$tlk$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38232E4A.48F35D85@ebox.tninet.se> X-Trace: news.decus.org 941836148 27553 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <38232E4A.48F35D85@ebox.tninet.se>, Stefan Skoglund writes: > Robert Dewar wrote: >> >> Well maybe it depends on motives. We often find that people in >> the business of selling proprietary software like to go out of >> their way to try to confuse this issue. So perhaps if you are >> in the business of selling copyrighted stuff, you would like >> to create the same confusion for free speech :-) > > Maybe you should use the word encumbered ?? > GCC is as far as i know copyrighted. GNAT is certainly encumbered -- you cannot sell a derived work without making the sources available. People should stop assuming that just because this sort of business arrangement is useful it can be described by a simple existing word. Stating the license name (e.g., GPL) seems as useful as any other description. Trying for anything more general doesn't work, as the reason there are varying licenses is that there are differences in terms. To quote Bill Hancock: "Compatible" means "Different". If they meant "Same" they would say "Same". Larry Kilgallen