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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,c92999d3d36edb6c X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hibou57_=28Yannick_Duch=EAne=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:41:31 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <63138281-efb8-42f0-a551-015372d5d900@l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com> References: <4a3a1fd6$0$30224$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net> <9331a174-96f7-4551-bc74-3d6946eb9d01@k20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <2e018078-f9ef-4b01-9cf6-08a6aab979e8@s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com> <4A3AA94E.7080401@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 77.198.58.216 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1245361291 6374 127.0.0.1 (18 Jun 2009 21:41:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:31 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l32g2000vba.googlegroups.com; posting-host=77.198.58.216; posting-account=vrfdLAoAAAAauX_3XwyXEwXCWN3A1l8D User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; fr),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6524 Date: 2009-06-18T14:41:31-07:00 List-Id: Hi Pascal, On 18 juin, 22:53, Pascal Obry 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