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, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,9a5f3bd162009c01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Reply-To: "Frank" From: "Frank" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:10:14 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.80-202-220.nextgentel.com X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 200.80-202-220.nextgentel.com Message-ID: <43350a13$1@news.broadpark.no> X-Trace: news.broadpark.no 1127549459 200.80-202-220.nextgentel.com (24 Sep 2005 10:10:59 +0200) Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!news.broadpark.no Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5087 Date: 2005-09-24T10:10:14+02:00 List-Id: Hi What oportunities does an open licensing give to the big customers of AdaCore? What if a big company choses to keep all their development on the 3.15p version --- because they have 25 developers this becomes cheap. However they need the quality from the AdaCore service- so they buy one licence of "5-seats"- on which they compile all other code regulary (especially before testing) and from which they base their support requests. Does the licensing prevent this? If this is allowed it must surely be bad for AdaCore business. Frank