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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny06.POSTED!0e8a908a!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again References: <4357E40B.1050705@obry.net> <4358067B.50208@obry.net> <43580A43.4050507@obry.net> <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1129927622.825849.56200@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:32:14 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.249.2.214 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny06 1130034734 71.249.2.214 (Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:32:14 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:32:14 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5883 Date: 2005-10-23T02:32:14+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > But the point is, let me reassert it: > I want to make some other people working for me, and sell the result of > their work as if it were mine. GPL makes it difficult. Why? The contract between you and your employees has nothing to do with how you license the software they produce. When you hire your employees, just have them sign the standard industry contract that whatever they produce (whether only on company time or altogether is one variation here) while employed by you is yours, and they retain no rights to it.