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-Thread: 103376,2acf1f37f6bdc5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licences References: <1129303351.767662.191580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <80733$434fd8b0$49951a4$23477@ALLTEL.NET> <1129369145.676257.240480@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1129664902.259736.320470@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 21:45:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1129671915 217.209.116.179 (Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:45:15 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 23:45:15 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5785 Date: 2005-10-18T21:45:15+00:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > ....on one hand the GPL is ultimately what 'Free' Software is all about, > isn't it? And when you hear of companies sticking satellites into space > using GNAT _3.15p_ then there is clearly revenue there that they are > just not getting (and need as much as any other business). AdaCore doesn't sell sticking-satellites-into-space licenses that you have to buy before you may stick satellites into space. What they sell is support. If you pay they'll answer your questions and prioritize your bug reports. If you feel that you can program satellites without asking AdaCore about anything, then you're free to do so. You're implying that those companies who have been using Gnat 3.15p will prefer Gnat Pro over Gnat GPL. Why is that? If it's the same company that writes the program and builds the satellite, then they only use the software internally so the GPL doesn't apply. And even if the satellite software would have to be GPL'd, would it really matter that much? They weren't going to base their business on selling lots of copies of closed source satellite software anyway, because who would buy it? Other satellites will need other programs. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu