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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a965a2c097437981 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 11:23:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newsfeed.online.be!news.algonet.se!algonet!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr21.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ANN: GMGPL Claw Page References: <4519e058.0204300549.121a62db@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.112.202.119 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr21.news.prodigy.com 1020277349 ST000 67.112.202.119 (Wed, 01 May 2002 14:22:29 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 14:22:29 EDT Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: OH\IRYOGTRUSP_@YMZJ\_Q\@TJ_ZTB\MV@BD]\YIJYWZUYICD^RAQBKZQTZTX\_I[^G_KGFNON[ZOE_AZNVO^\XGGNTCIRPIJH[@RQKBXLRZ@CD^HKANYVW@RLGEZEJN@\_WZJBNZYYKVIOR]T]MNMG_Z[YVWSCH_Q[GPC_A@CARQVXDSDA^M]@DRVUM@RBM Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 18:22:29 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23357 Date: 2002-05-01T18:22:29+00:00 List-Id: >As for making it into the full Claw, frankly that's for you to care >about, not me. I will continue to not care about it as long as its not >Free Software, or I don't work for a company that has purchased a If your code made it into full Claw, it would help all users of Claw, ie, a portion of the Ada community, and thus help Ada. You don't care? Yes, it might subtract some money from those users and transfer it to RR Software, but nearly all software is worth *much* more to its users than the price they paid for it. Think of the number of programs you've bought that weren't worth what you paid, and total up the dollars. Now think of the ones that were worth it, and saved you time etc worth hundreds of times what the program cost. I suspect you've made out rather well. The same calculation applies to users of (your contribution to) Claw. > You could of couse offer me a bri^H^H^Hinducement to > allow you to relicense my stuff with something proprietary. :-) It's usually called a royalty, or pay, rather than a bribe, and it's common and above board. To be able to do it, of course, RR would have to get some money from users of (enhanced) Claw.