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Subject: Re: "Open Core" and the Ada Community
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<<I don't think it has. The essential point in Kuhn's post is that people can 
still fork the GPL-licensed codebase and re-implement the proprietary parts 
they need themselves. That's still impossible with a BSD licensed codebase 
that has been turned proprietary.>>

No that was not the essential point of the article at all. It was that despite being GPL it is possible to use the GPL in ways that restric others rights.

His "essential point" was that developers should not allow homogeonization of the copyright to help reduce the risks of that. "start contributing to the code with your own copyrights, licensed under GPL"

The Ada community has seen claims of full rights for AdaCore to do as they please and enable and empower their claims to various licensing scenarios they use.

<<So there's no crippling of new development and innovation at all. It's just 
a bit slowed down ;)>>

When developers know their work will be encumbered for use by others in licensing games or otherwise the "core" has been booby trapped they hold back from development and innovation. It is not just slowed down it is often stopped or never started.

<<Bye...>>
I am a proponent and author of open source for Ada, one of the few remaining. Someone has to care and speak up regularly. Things can not get swept under the rug.

David Botton