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: 103376,60086334c984dfc2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-18 00:50:21 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: The Ada Developers Cooperative License (was Re: RE:) Date: 18 Jul 2001 00:50:20 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107172350.1d6ef192@posting.google.com> References: <9j1v7e$8ik$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.224.77.203 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 995442621 22395 127.0.0.1 (18 Jul 2001 07:50:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Jul 2001 07:50:21 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10126 Date: 2001-07-18T07:50:21+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:<9j1v7e$8ik$1@nh.pace.co.uk>... > I suppose there are some who put their software out under GPL free of > charge from some sort of contempt for the free enterprise system. Actually, I know a lot of programmers who do this because they want fame and riches, which is rather far from being contemptuous of free enterprise. If you have copyrighted software that you want to license to people, there are lots of different models of how you can license that software. Even if your only goal is to maximize profit, proprietary licenses may often be a poor choice (simply because they are a poor choice for your customers, and giving customers what they want is a rather important dynamic in success in the marketplace). A lot of nonsense has been written about the GPL recently, most notably by a large company in Redmond. I suggest that anyone really interested in understanding how this license works, and how it can be used successfully in the context of our free enterprise system should read the GPL FAQ now available at www.gnu.org.