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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,63c933060b5591b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-14 11:07:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.erols.net!netnews.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B28FD6C.5000200@earthlink.net> From: Charles Hixson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Announcement: Finite State Editor References: <9f7i8s$rpc1@news.kvaerner.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 18:07:50 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.94.156.19 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 992542070 198.94.156.19 (Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:07:50 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:07:50 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:05:46 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8743 Date: 2001-06-14T18:07:50+00:00 List-Id: Tarjei T. Jensen wrote: > Christoph Grein wrote in message ... > >>FSMedit V1.4 has been released. This is the first full implementation. >> >>The licensing information has been updated. >> >>FSMedit is an editor for finite state machines. It is written in Ada with >> > the > >>graphical user's interface by Claw. For token recognition, OpenToken is >> > used. > >>It is released under GPL and comes with full documentation. >> > > 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. -- Charles Hixson Copy software legally, the GNU way! Use GNU software, and legally make and share copies of software. See http://www.gnu.org http://www.redhat.com http://www.linux-mandrake.com http://www.calderasystems.com/ http://www.linuxapps.com/