Re: Announcement: Finite State Editor

[Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net>]

Tarjei T. Jensen wrote:

> Christoph Grein wrote in message ...
> 
>>FSMedit V1.4 has been released. This is the first full implementation.
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>>The licensing information has been updated.
>>
>>FSMedit is an editor for finite state machines. It is written in Ada with
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> the
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>>graphical user's interface by Claw. For token recognition, OpenToken is
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> used.
> 
>>It is released under GPL and comes with full documentation.
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> 
> This is likely to mean that the output will not be usable in commercial
> applications. Is that your intention? If it is, then please re-consider.
> This could mean that Ada is not used because a similar tool may be available
> in another language.
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> 
> 

If you do link against the program, what this means is that if you wish 
to sell it commercially, then you need to negotiate a separate license 
with the author.  The authors have the right to release copies of their 
work under multiple licenses.

Releasing a work under the GPL allows one the option of also selling it 
under a different license of ones choosing.

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Charles Hixson

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