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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-30 11:08:18 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT license rational (was [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released) Date: 30 Apr 2001 16:44:52 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9ck4q4$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <5viG6.1064$SZ5.86996@www.newsranger.com> <9ccf6b$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e53d6.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.0 (Linux) Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7058 Date: 2001-04-30T16:44:52+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:09:06 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote: > David Starner said > >< would have probably objected to ACT offering a different license to > its customers than to the general public. >> > > I suggest that you do not presume to speak for the FSF. I didn't presume to speak for the FSF; I merely offered my guess on how they would feel about a subject. > In fact Richard > Stallman has no objections to the Cygnus model. Ah, but it's one thing for Cygnus to offer different licenses on code it owns, and quite another for ACT to offer different licenses on stuff the FSF owns. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg