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,ac39a12d5faf5b14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-20 14:33:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!cox.net!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC1DEF2.4060204@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Development process in the Ada community References: <5ee5b646.0204200830.2bd258d2@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 21:32:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1019338379 68.12.51.201 (Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:32:59 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 17:32:59 EDT Organization: Cox Communications Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22837 Date: 2002-04-20T21:32:59+00:00 List-Id: tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>The GPL is merely a software license that gives users of your software >>more rights ... >> > Different, not More. A set of rights is not one-dimensional with an > obvious ordering. I'd say different, and almost always more. I've certianly never read a shrink-wrap software license that gives me as much freedom as the GPL. Usually they say you can't do anything, and then list a few exceptions (eg: install on one machine, make one backup copy, etc). The GPL bascily says I can do anything, then lists a few exceptions.