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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <33f1587d-b3eb-4866-8121-b027743d1114@n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.198.58.216 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245364902 17430 127.0.0.1 (18 Jun 2009 22:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: n4g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=77.198.58.216; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6526 Date: 2009-06-18T15:41:42-07:00 List-Id: Hi Stephe, On 19 juin, 00:17, Stephen Leake wrote: > > Do you want your application to be open source, or closed source? > > -- > -- Stephe As I've replied to Pascal and to someone else before, if possible, I would like it to be open source (this is obvious I think, I'm not to write a virus or a trojan) to people who wish to get the source (in the mean time, most of peoples don't wish, mainly just developpers do), but I do not understand how I can sell something if peoples are allowed to distribute it for free. This is the only reason why the GPL is troublesome to me. If cannot do the project a commercial project (at low cost, I'm not a nasty boy), I would simply not run this project and think about something else. Here is another wording of the matter by someone else (beside of my own previous wording) : http://encodable.com/tech/blog/2006/02/25/Why_the_GPL_is_Incompatible_with_Commercial_Software I come to this link searching on the web how it is possible to create an open source commercial application under GPL. His thinking and mine are somewhat the same. Well, anyway I think that this should be Ok with GCC and the exceptions introduced withing GPL3 referenced by GCC. Note that I do not attempt to use any free libraries nor to abuse anyone in this project (well, in fact, a series of little projects), just my own (precisely in the purpose to not abuse anyone), except for GTK, if I ever port something to Linux, beceause GTK is one of the two native UIs on Linux/Unix-Like (GTK on Linux and GTK on Windows is not the same stuff in my opinion). The trouble for me is about compiler and runtime. But I guess other peoples reading this thread, might be interested in the same question shifted to third party libraries. The LGPL comes in this area. About the library question, here is something which is of interest : http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=439136