Re: Ada and Database

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> NO license that is MORE restrictive than the GPL can possibly
> be compatible with the GPL. There are indeed a number of
> open source licenses that are incomaptible with the GPL, and
> indeed the resulting software is not considered to be Free
> Software by the GNU Project.

There are free software licenses which are incompatible with the GPL
(even the in the FSF terminology).  The GNU folks are not as zealous
as many people think.  Of course, they recommend against using these
licenses for new software, but they do not condemn the use of software
available under such licenses.

A few prominent examples of GPL-incompatible free software licenses
is are the original BSD license (with advertising clause), the Apache
License, the LaTeX license, the MPL, the QPL, and many more.

See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html for are more
complete list.