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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a875d9649dde34e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn13feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4164645C.681A3F2@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Reply-To: cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat Pro and the GPL References: <4e8fe302b927b504b93983dba6b0d79f@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com> <87y8imp52w.fsf@insalien.org> <9kW8d.105219$dP1.389040@newsc.telia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:21:58 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.76.131.219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1097101318 12.76.131.219 (Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:21:58 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 22:21:58 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4845 Date: 2004-10-06T22:21:58+00:00 List-Id: Marius Amado Alves wrote: > Bj�rn Persson wrote: > >>>> ... do you think the Free Software >>>> Foundation would issue a special proprietary license to Adacore? >>> >>> Why not? Many open source businesses do. >> >> Ever heard of a guy named Richard Stallman, founder and leader of >> said foundation? Ever heard anything about his opinions?... > > So at last we know the difference between open source and free > software: Open source software can be dual licensed, and free > software cannot! Ah, the beauty of simple things :-) No, AIUI software copyrights originally belong to the author. They may be licensed as the author pleases, which includes the GPL, or the LGPL, or any other license. In the case of GNU software all rights have been assigned to GNU and the original author(s) is/are out of the picture. If the rights have not been assigned, sold, or whatever, the author may charge as he wishes for anything. However he may not charge for derivatives of GPL licensed software, as that is specifically forbidden by the license. He may charge for physical delivery, and must make any modified sources available at cost. Whatever he originates entirely remains his own, even though he makes it available under the GPL etc. All of my software published on my site (below) is freely available, some in the public domain so that anyone may do anything they wish with it, and some under GPL so that people may use it freely, provided that anything they use it in is also put under GPL. If they don't like that they are free to negotiate some other license with me. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer@yahoo.com) (cbfalconer@worldnet.att.net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!