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,a2c7f6cbdb72aa16 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: "proprietary", was Re: ada on linux Date: 2000/06/05 Message-ID: <8hg7dc$tj6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 631249247 References: <8hf5uh$6nf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <393B554F.43C369C4@research.canon.com.au> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x57.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Before you buy. X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jun 05 12:45:36 2000 GMT X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDrobert_dewar Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.61 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 2000-06-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <393B554F.43C369C4@research.canon.com.au>, Geoff Bull wrote: > tmoran@bix.com wrote: > > While legal, adding significant value to one's > > proprietary product by copying/including something BSDed, without its > > author's permission, is usually considered unethical. > > On what do you base this assertion ??? > There is absolutely nothing to suggest this in the BSD > license. Exactly, and indeed one of the main reasons that some authors prefer to use the BSD is precisely that they want everyone to be free to use the software without any restrictions. That's perfectly legitimate, and may indeed make a lot of sense in a particular situation. For example, when you buy the Palm Developer's Kit, you get a completely unfettered license to the source of the Palm utilities. Palm *wants* you to make improved software to sell more Palms! The choice of license really depends on the situation. For the GNAT runtime, we think it is a good thing if developers can freely use this code, and that is why we follow the pattern established by the FSF in similar situations to ensure that runtime code can be freely used. For the GNAT compiler, we think it is a good thing for the Ada community if we all have a guarantee that all future versions of GNAT will remain in open source/free software status, and that's why we choose to use the GPL for this part of the technology. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.