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: 103376,58988230753075de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-30 20:35:30 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: In praise of Ada Freeware Date: 30 Jul 2001 20:35:29 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107301935.721c1842@posting.google.com> References: <9k3ui1$ql1$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 996550530 28637 127.0.0.1 (31 Jul 2001 03:35:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 2001 03:35:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10813 Date: 2001-07-31T03:35:30+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:<9k3ui1$ql1$1@nh.pace.co.uk>... > To a large extent, this is provided under the Ada Developers > Cooperative License. Perhaps, but that's a MUCH more restrictive license than the GPL. Certainly any company that does not like the GPL is going to like that even less. > The ADCL is a lot less restrictive than the GPL in the sense of > enabling use by a wide variety of people - it just > reserves some financial rights in some rather limited cases. Well it's a matter of point of view, from my point of view restricting redistribution rights in any manner is a very significant restriction, and the ADCL qualifies neither as Open Source, nor as Free Software under the usual definitions (see the relevant web sites for definitions of these terms). But ultimately the real point here is that copyright holders can decide their own licensing conditions, I doubt any discussion, least of all among the habituees of CLA, is going to have epsilon effect on the license that people choose to use for the software they create.