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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,33ec2881cc3ecf36 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: ada < - > java bindings wanted Date: 1999/08/21 Message-ID: <7pmmot$rm5$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 515525314 References: <37BD0169.B49F73A5@acenet.com.au> <7pjm8u$on1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <37BEB3BB.78C0B230@acenet.com.au> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x36.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.82.184 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Aug 21 17:14:10 1999 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-08-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <37BEB3BB.78C0B230@acenet.com.au>, Geoff Bull wrote: > If you don't like the code, or are simply not interested > in it, I can't imagine you care too much about the license. > If you like the code and the license is a problem for > you, we can be probably convinced to use a different license. > > You might find "idiosyncratic" licenses a problem. > However, for us, code that is straight GPL or LGPL > is a problem. Just to be clear, we are interested in this code, and at least one of our GNAT Professional customers is using it. The license is only a problem because it is non-standard. We certainly do not insist on any code we use being GPL'ed. More permissive licensing such as public domain, or BSD is quite fine. We insist on open source status, and we much prefer licenses that are free software compatible, but we can certainly consider more restrictive open source licenses in our environment. Indeed we tool partner with a number of companies offering useful proprietary tools that work well with GNAT. Our primary interest here is in helping our customers, but we have to be a little careful in passing on code if we don't understand the license well. One of the guarantees that we make to customers right now is that they can use GNAT libraries without any concern about acquiring problematic licensing conditions that would apply to their generated programs. This is of course achieved in our case by use of the GNAT modified GPL (GMGPL). Any license that is at least this non-restrictive is fine with us. In fact a library released under the pure GPL (such as the public versions of Cygwin) is NOT acceptable for inclusion in GNAT libraries, precisely because it does cause troublesome licensing issues for generated programs. You have to be very careful with license conditions, and as I have said many times before, this is equally true whether you are talking Free Software, OSI-certified software, or proprietary software. More than once I have run into customers who were accidentally violating the Cygnus copyright by including the pure GPL'ed version of Cygwin in their programs, and then not adhering to the consequent GPL'ed status of the resulting programs. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.