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: 1999/02/09 Message-ID: <79ojjt$en1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 442183450 References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36B856E4.D921C1D@bton.ac.uk> <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner> <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.171318.1@eisner> <79dp2o$s2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36ba730b.35540068@news.pacbell.net> <79eq4l$m1a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36bb301f.2303870@news.pacbell.net> <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79fvk4$npp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79gro0$dhs$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79mua4$242$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79n7a3$9mk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79ngjc$hko$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Feb 09 06:12:18 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <79ngjc$hko$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dennison@telepath.com wrote: > In article <79n7a3$9mk$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, > robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > Are you > saying that folks should to run things like the Ada95 > Booch Components by their procurement people? Most certainly if you used copyrighted software, you had better run it by your legal people to make sure that it is properly licensed. The fact that it is open source is quite irrelevant to this requirement. The idea that this means that it is easier to rewrite it yourself is an old NIH argument that seldom holds water. I have seen any number of occasions on which huge amounts of time has been spent reinventing the wheel. Just remember that typical software productivity is of the order of 10-20 lines/day, and you are unlikely to be at the high end of this range when writing general purpose reusable libraries, where the design is often very difficult. I would be very suspicious of anyone making the claim that Ted did that "oh we can rewrite it ourselves easily". The point about using a standard license like the modified GPL, is that it is already fairly familiar to the lawyers who are likely to have to check out these kinds of licenses. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own