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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,ff4984baa8032ee3,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,18f6de557e6897b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: fjh@mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: circular unit dependency Date: 1997/05/26 Message-ID: <5mc7ct$alv@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 244016872 References: <3386d96f.171920@noticias.ibernet.es> <33898C78.27D3@sprintmail.com> Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-05-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "John G. Volan" 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.] -- Fergus Henderson | "I have always known that the pursuit WWW: | of excellence is a lethal habit" PGP: finger fjh@128.250.37.3 | -- the last words of T. S. Garp.