From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada and licensing
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:05:38 +0200
Date: 2007-09-17T16:00:17+02:00 [thread overview]
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On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 05:32:03 -0700, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
[...]
> In short: if you decide to distribute your software in the source
> form, then you are not bound by any licenses. You can invent your own.
>
> Note: distributing software in source form does *not* mean that it is
> not proprietary.
And how does this *technically* differ from distributing software as
executable "source" code with unresolved references (strings in the source)
to the RTL? As long as you don't distribute the RTL and the loader...
Hex code ~ Ada source
RTL + loader ~ Ada compiler
The bottom line is, it is worth to ask your lawyer first.
--
Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-17 14:05 UTC|newest]
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2007-09-17 7:33 Ada and licensing Tomek Wałkuski
2007-09-17 8:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 8:07 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 10:43 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-17 9:27 ` Stephen Leake
2007-09-17 9:37 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 10:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2007-09-17 11:15 ` Martin Krischik
2007-09-17 11:33 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 13:10 ` anon
2007-09-17 16:47 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-17 16:50 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-17 17:26 ` Markus E L
[not found] ` <1190095844.877071@xnews001>
2007-09-18 7:19 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-18 13:33 ` Markus E L
2007-09-18 0:30 ` anon
2007-09-18 6:06 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2007-09-18 13:32 ` Markus E L
2007-09-17 10:09 ` anon
2007-09-17 11:12 ` Martin Krischik
2007-09-17 12:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-09-17 12:42 ` Tomek Wa kuski
2007-09-17 20:20 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2007-09-17 20:34 ` Wiktor Moskwa
2007-09-17 21:01 ` Ludovic Brenta
2007-09-18 4:48 ` Wiktor Moskwa
2007-09-17 14:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2007-09-19 9:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2007-09-19 19:50 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-19 20:05 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2007-09-19 22:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-20 8:30 ` Markus E L
2007-09-21 20:12 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-21 21:46 ` Ada and licensing + how to keep the RTL license from propagating :-) Markus E L
2007-09-22 23:25 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-23 8:54 ` Markus E L
2007-09-23 11:48 ` Simon Wright
2007-09-23 19:41 ` Markus E L
2007-09-19 23:15 ` Ada and licensing Jeffrey Creem
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