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,c197e893ca74cfe X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: ada on linux Date: 2000/05/25 Message-ID: <8givvv$vvo$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 627098727 References: <8gffph$ft3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8ggm28$a33$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x73.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Thu May 25 10:41:05 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-05-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > In article <8ggm28$a33$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar writes: > > > Well most often proprietary in software has been used to > > describe software which is only released under restrictive > > license terms. > Such as requiring that changed source be released with changed > binaries ? No, such as not permitting redistribution at all, and not providing the sources at all. Yes, of course there are restrictions in all licenses, but there is a pretty big difference between the Microsoft license, which is very much about protecting Microsoft's interests, and the GPL, which is about protecting user interests in having deriviative products retain a non-restrictive license. If you have a rule in a democracy that the one thing that the people may not vote on is a proposal to end democracy, that's a rather different kind of restriction than say, one which allows only one party to exist :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.