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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 09:30:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Contributing patches to GPL Ada projects (was: Is Ada dead?) Date: 11 Jul 2001 09:30:39 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107110830.1a134d7e@posting.google.com> References: <67F27.14089$Kf3.151364@www.newsranger.com> <5ee5b646.0107101433.fedfed8@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 994869040 29510 127.0.0.1 (11 Jul 2001 16:30:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 11 Jul 2001 16:30:40 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9804 Date: 2001-07-11T16:30:40+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote in message news:... > (I put quotes around "proprietary", because there is a very > large class of users, my present employer included, who don't really > distribute their sources, but prefer to keep their options open.) Well the owner of the copyright on an object always has open options, but what I mean by proprietary here is precisely that neither the sources nor the object are Free Software or Open Source in the technical sense of either term, and it sounds like your present employer is in this camp, so the term proprietary seems quite appropriate. Sure, your employer may change their minds on this issue -- a lot of people have been changing their minds about opening up their sources recently :-)