Re: Gnoga the "Killer App" for Ada

[David Botton <david@botton.com>]

> > Our business decided not to use Gnoga because of the license GPLv3. Any chances for BSD/MIT?


*** Did you look at the FAQ? I discuss this there.

If you want to consider a large donation to the project (I have a lot of plans for it) I'd be happy to give you any license you want for your company alone, although I think that silly (not the donation part) since you can use Gnoga in closed source projects.

However as pointed out this is __GMGPL v3__ not GPL v3 which means you can use in closed source applications, just if you extend / change the library itself _and_ you distribute your app beyond your walls, you need to make just _that_ source available to others. That is the reason I don't use BSD/MIT, I don't want a 3rd party company building on Gnoga with out sharing :) (Even though they could get away with it to a degree even with GMGPL)

All the code I've written for the community to date has been with GMGPL and they have been used in 100s of closed source project (no exaggeration on that number since I know of one company with over 100 alone using GWindows).

I'd be happy to discuss with anyone you like any issues regarding it. 

> It looks (to me) as just about the same as in gnat pro

It is identical to it.

David Botton