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From: Optikos <optikos@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: Needed - Ada 2012 Compiler.
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 16:25:00 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2019-05-27T16:25:00-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <29e20858-6e53-4e52-a5e0-6ff7cb0d8f74@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qcgpro$lmi$1@dont-email.me>

On 2019-05-27 at 08:38, Björn Lundlin wrote:
> On 2019-05-27 12:30, alby....@gmail.com wrote: 
> > - AdaCore's GNAT 2018 community edition
> > (cant be used in commercial apps.) 
> 
> Of course it can be used in commercial apps.
> But it will be under GPL. 
> But you can still sell it, and sell support to it. 

But “[o]f course it can be used [by anyone else] in [their] commercial apps [too]. 
[Because its source will be freely available] it will be under GPL [for anyone to fork]. 
But [they] can still sell it [to compete with you directly], and [they] sell support to it [to compete with you directly].”

Hence why Alex was correctly indicating that GPL Community Edition forestalls most practical forms of commercial business activity by entirely prohibiting AdaCore-esque dual licensing (as well as prohibiting closed source) due to lack of the Runtime License Exception.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-27 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-27  5:42 Needed - Ada 2012 Compiler obyrneaustin
2019-05-27 10:30 ` alby.gamper
2019-05-27 11:52   ` obyrneaustin
2019-05-27 13:48   ` Björn Lundin
2019-05-27 23:25     ` Optikos [this message]
2019-05-28  6:43       ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-05-28  8:25         ` Björn Lundin
2019-05-29  1:57         ` Optikos
2019-05-29  5:54           ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-05-29 14:28             ` Optikos
2019-05-29 15:23               ` Björn Lundin
2019-05-29 16:27                 ` Optikos
2019-05-29 17:15                   ` Björn Lundin
2019-05-29 19:32                     ` Simon Wright
2019-05-29 20:47                       ` Björn Lundin
2019-05-30  7:32                         ` Simon Wright
2019-05-30 11:04                           ` Björn Lundin
2019-05-30 11:59                             ` Simon Wright
2019-05-28  8:17       ` Björn Lundin
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