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From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: editors - open source - written in ADA?
Date: 17 Nov 2001 20:56:17 -0600
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In article <tve5qcrhhqd78c@corp.supernews.com>, "David Botton" <David@Botton.com> writes:

> Typically an editor and other tool would be released under the GPL since
> these are end products. Take a look at the FSF site for the "why"s on the
> GPL.

On VMS the standard for editors is to make them "callable", so they
can be activated in a uniform fashion by either the (minimal) EDIT
program or any other application that needs an editor.  So the user
gets their choice of editor with their choice of program.

>From what I have read here, neither GPL nor other "open source"
licenses place any restrictions on interactions between components
in this sort of situation, since they are in separate images.