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 20:39:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.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 20:39:25 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107301939.20b7df1e@posting.google.com> References: <87wv4r1uy5.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <+uc0vOZmzK9b@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107291409.6538ad64@posting.google.com> <4ajzJ$TMn9o+@eisner.encompasserve.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 996550766 28675 127.0.0.1 (31 Jul 2001 03:39:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jul 2001 03:39:26 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10815 Date: 2001-07-31T03:39:26+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:... > Obviously our vantage points differ. I quote from a recent post in > the VMS newsgroup where the meaning of "The Freeware" is considered > to be known by all. No, you're getting confused here "The Freeware" is referring to the particular set of software concerned, it is not a definition of Freeware. That explains the confusion, but from now on, please concentrate on recommending what licensing you would like to see (not that I think it will affect anyone much, but at least we would know what you were trying to say). For example, is a restrictive license like the ADCL acceptable from your point of view, or do you want to at least conform to the definition of Open Source.