From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: circular unit dependency
Date: 1997/05/26
Date: 1997-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5mc7ct$alv@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33898C78.27D3@sprintmail.com
"John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com> writes:
>I'd love it if it were on adahome or someplace comparable. Ages ago I
>did mail my whole FAQ to Magnus Kempe in hopes he would install it into
>adahome somewhere, or maybe the Ada Programmer's FAQ...but he refused.
>He said it was because I stuck the LGPL on the generic Identity package.
...
>Magnus is apparently allergic to the LGPL (or maybe he's just allergic
>to my little generic gizmo, I dunno... :-) ). At the risk of
>resurrecting another monster thread, anyone have any advice on what
>license verbiage I should use instead? I don't want to place any
>restrictions on the use of my Forward package (i.e., I want to let
>proprietary commercial stuff incorporate it without catching the free
>software virus). But on the other hand, I want to keep copyright control
>over it to prevent anyone from turning it proprietary and keeping others
>from using it. I thought the LGPL was good enough for that but now it
>seems I'm wrong...
Nope, you're right, the LGPL does satisfy those goals
(although the LGPL does impose some requirements that may
be an _inconvenience_ to proprietry software developers).
If Magnus Kempe is allergic to the LGPL, that's his problem.
[Followups redirected to gnu.misc.discuss.]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-05-26 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-05-24 0:00 circular unit dependency jdlopez
1997-05-24 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1997-05-25 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-05-26 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-26 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson [this message]
1997-05-27 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Ada95=>Ada0Y Process? [was: circular unit dependency] John G. Volan
1997-06-04 0:00 ` Ada95 packages, C++ namespaces, & circular dependencies John G. Volan
1997-06-07 0:00 ` Ada95=>Ada0Y Process? [was: circular unit dependency] Robert Dewar
1997-06-07 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-08 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-07 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-28 0:00 ` circular unit dependency John G. Volan
1997-06-01 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1997-05-31 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-01 0:00 ` Kevin Cline
1997-06-01 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-02 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-05-31 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
[not found] ` <33932F31.4399@sprintmail.com>
1997-06-02 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-06-03 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-05 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1997-06-05 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-06-06 0:00 ` Stephen Schmid
1997-06-03 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau (Wes)
1997-06-03 0:00 ` John G. Volan
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1998-05-26 0:00 Brendan Reville
2003-05-23 9:20 Mirko Aigner
2003-05-23 11:37 ` Jeffrey Creem
2003-05-23 12:12 ` David C. Hoos
2003-05-23 18:08 ` Stephen Leake
2003-05-24 22:12 ` Robert I. Eachus
2003-05-26 8:05 ` Mirko Aigner
2005-01-04 18:31 R
2005-01-04 23:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2005-01-05 8:35 ` Martin Krischik
2005-01-05 8:55 ` Duncan Sands
2005-01-05 0:26 ` Stephen Leake
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