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: 103376,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Date: 1999/02/05 Message-ID: <79dor3$rmc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440838846 References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36B856E4.D921C1D@bton.ac.uk> <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner> <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x5.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Fri Feb 05 03:33:56 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com>, "Pat Rogers" wrote: > Do you have specific issues with the ACL, or is this a > general "anything that smacks of a legal issue is > sufficient to prevent use"? I assume the latter... The odd thing here is that you can't use ANY copyrighted software without reading and understanding the license and making sure you are following the conditions of the license. The idea that a license that gives you access to the sources is somehow more worrisome than one that does not is truly bizarre -- well actually it is usually more a matter of ignorance or deliberate obfuscation to think that there is any issue here at all. An important thing to remember with, for example, GPL'ed software is that it is copyrighted, licensed software. You can only use it if you conform to the conditions of the license, otherwise you are violating the copyright. Yes, the license is less restrictive than some other licenses, it is more restrictive than some other licenses. The point here is that when using copyrighted software, you cannot avoid legal issues, you need to make sure you have the legal right to use it and that you are properly licensed for this use, and that applies if you are using Microsoft Word, or GNU EMACS. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own