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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c32fe290813aec20 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: (slightly OT) Open Source licences? (was: Re: New Ada portable GUI Library?) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:57:46 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <91e3ccdb-869e-4647-85a2-0bca70635f6f@q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <6d63c543-0a35-4c39-a330-98c63a24f64d@i3g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.3.224.91 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1200164268 1495 127.0.0.1 (12 Jan 2008 18:57:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:57:48 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=85.3.224.91; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19357 Date: 2008-01-12T10:57:46-08:00 List-Id: On 12 Sty, 19:36, "framefri...@gmail.com" wrote: > After such a long introduction my question finally arrives: can you > suggest any open-source licence which could be used in this case ? > (and maybe in other Ada libraries to be developed) The C++ programmers have this: http://www.boost.org/ The license choice was a big issue and after lengthy consultations the Boost community arrived at this: http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt Please read this: http://www.boost.org/more/license_info.html to learn the rationale for it. There is nothing that prevents anybody from using it for other libraries. Whether this license is good for your particular purpose is entirely up to you, but if you already find GPL not meeting your requirements (too much restrictive and preventing wider adoption), then the Boost license might be the best next match. It is similar in spirit to BSD. -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com