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: 103376,9a5f3bd162009c01 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: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 06:59:47 -0500 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> <43350a13$1@news.broadpark.no> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 13:59:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87y85msmlf.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7XIG5LFepqv8uDD4xuX0FN0ghBw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.245.58 X-Trace: sv3-booNspMfBFIARG1POWoNf6rDgANnLM31A2k/eAC0JRCCA5tmrRuRklbb1bMKbp8x0hJ2zOqr2bAO9dD!0eBAisCLT2bfVi9ixBvdConS3rkUrkzNz4wTfWr7S6m/fv8X7IenWziLWtywMZQWd8zBLGB4pg== 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:5093 Date: 2005-09-24T13:59:24+02:00 List-Id: "Frank" writes: > Hi > > What oportunities does an open licensing give to the big customers of > AdaCore? > What if a big company choses to keep all their development on the 3.15p > version --- because they have 25 developers > this becomes cheap. However they need the quality from the AdaCore service- > so they buy one licence of "5-seats"- > on which they compile all other code regulary (especially before testing) > and from which they base their support requests. Does the licensing prevent > this? If this is allowed it must surely be bad for AdaCore business. A quote from a recent paper by Jamie Ayre and Franco Gasperoni [1] says: "How do we check that users do not exceed the subscription level they purchased? We don't, we trust our customers. Trust builds trust." And later in the same paper: "AdaCore has seen steady growth over the 10 years since launch and received several awards for strong financial performance. From the core staff of 3 at the time the company was created, AdaCore now has over 40 permanent staff as well as several consultants and interns." [1] http://oss2005.case.unibz.it/Papers/10.pdf -- Ludovic Brenta.