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: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-14 07:05:10 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: 14 Jul 2001 07:05:10 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107140605.5c5d76eb@posting.google.com> References: <67F27.14089$Kf3.151364@www.newsranger.com> <5ee5b646.0107101433.fedfed8@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0107110830.1a134d7e@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 995119510 20815 127.0.0.1 (14 Jul 2001 14:05:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Jul 2001 14:05:10 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9948 Date: 2001-07-14T14:05:10+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote in message news:... > Well, I suppose that's true in the sense that my present employer isn't going to > distribute the software in question (under any license whatsoever) to anyone who > isn't a copyright holder (eg: ourselves or the US Government). But I don't think > you want to define "proprietary" use that way, as it would almost certianly > include ACT as well! You miss the point entirely, the issue is not whom you distribute to, it is the conditions under which you distribute (that's what Free Software is about, the manner of distribution). And proprietary software is software that is distributed in some other manner. And perhaps because of this misunderstanding, you are completely wrong, this definition definitely does not apply to ACT, the GNAT system and related tools distributed by ACT are most certainly Free Software in this sense. Is the copyright on your software really held jointly by the US Government and a private company? I doubt it, that would be very unusual, I think you are talking about data rights, not copyright here.