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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c7b0b777188b7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:27:03 -0500 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:28:22 +0200 Message-ID: <87ek6zom2h.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:SNGq9TxMlECArmKA+7nJ3K2yfF4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.241.83 X-Trace: sv3-dB3fAMrsO8GXQln+kDUZLkDt6BWE40SjPaTMxhaeVVkOlTPkHYQNZUtw9uWSRNNft/yUd2h0TX+gJn/!IxQClcDIC2p+XiacYOY2aa2LP7mjIFApf7cVj+jvNopVf5R3tk1GdwFGgev+n4pHvVCRxHHd8Q== X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5418 Date: 2005-10-05T20:28:22+02:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: >> [1] Quite to the contrary; the more I hear the "selfish argument", >> the more I feel inclined to package GNAT GPL Edition, just to teach >> selfish people that if they refuse to give, then they cannot take, >> as Georg Bauhaus said so nicely. > > Much of what I release publicly is under the GMGPL. This gives the > recipient greater freedom than the GPL. They can take parts of my > application and include it in their work, and release it under any > license they choose. But I guess I'm just selfish and deserve what I > get. I'm sorry if I offended you in any way. Of course you are not selfish; you are being super-unselfish, by allowing people to take your work while at the same time keeping their own work secret. The "selfish argument" was raised here by people who would like to do that with the GNAT library. -- Ludovic Brenta.