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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f65d0,bd4d2fccdf730b16 X-Google-Attributes: gidf65d0,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Wes Groleau Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/06/30 Message-ID: <33B7F7B0.1E85@does.not.exist.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 253674549 Sender: usenet@most.fw.hac.com (News Administration) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: sparc02 References: <33B014E3.3343@no.such.com> Organization: See Warning Below! Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.gcc Date: 1997-06-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > What exactly is the concern here. For things like the Booch components > the modified GPL would give you as much freedom as the ACL. My concern is not the restrictions of the UNmodified GPL, it is the people who recommend GPL'd code, and then tell me I don't know what I'm talking about when I say I can't use it. > or whether this is typical misinformed GPL FUD :-) I have no Fear on the issue. I did have some uncertainty and doubt until I re-read the GPL and found that it does indeed say exactly what I thought it said. :-) > Is there some reason you perceive that using, e.g. runtime units from > GNAT or GLADE with the modified GPL is somehow problematic for you. No, like I said, I think the ACL and the GNAT "modified GPL" are excellent. And I don't begrudge the FSF their right to restrict their stuff as they see fit. My concern again is first, false information about the GPL, and second the suspicion that it is so restrictive as to be counter-productive. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wes Groleau, Hughes Defense Communications, Fort Wayne, IN USA Senior Software Engineer - AFATDS Tool-smith Wanna-be wwgrol AT pseserv3.fw.hac.com Don't send advertisements to this domain unless asked! All disk space on fw.hac.com hosts belongs to either Hughes Defense Communications or the United States government. Using email to store YOUR advertising on them is trespassing! ----------------------------------------------------------------------