Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications

["Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Hi Pascal,

On 18 juin, 22:53, Pascal Obry <pas...@obry.net> wrote:
> I'm not a lawyer either but it seems to me that your question is not
> about making a commercial application but a closed source one.
>
> Pascal.
>
Not really. As I've said before, the probleme with GPL is not about
source code access, but about the fact that if a single instance is
sold, then this will allow it ot be distributed with no charge. Thus
there are two options : to sell a single license at a hoght price, and
don't bother if the owner distribute it for free, but not body like
hight price, or distribute it at a low price, but lost every thing
beceause after the first item will be sold, it would not be possible
to sold any one after (beceause the one sold gonna probably be
distributed for free by the owner)

This is not a matter of source code (I do not bother to provide source
code for owner of a binary copy), but I'm afraid about the commercial
effect of the GPL licence on a low cost application.

By the way, I'm a bit afraid too that provinding source code will be
interpreted as a right to distribute for free (a matter of trust).

I think access to source code is nice, but I do not want short circuit
in distribution

I do not know how to explain it in other words... but I guess some one
will understand