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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
Subject: Re: ANN: Ahven 1.5
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:45:53 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2009-02-24T09:45:53-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <af883e42-8c13-4b84-9ee0-761769aaaf6c@u18g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
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On Feb 24, 11:38 am, Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauh...@futureapps.de>
wrote:
> Tero Koskinen schrieb:
>
> > Ahven's API is similar to AUnit (1.0x series), but Ahven is plain Ada 95
> > code and works with other compilers than GNAT. In addition, Ahven is
> > distributed under ISC (modified BSD) license, so you can embed it
> > freely into commercial applications.
>
> More accurately, please consider replacing "commercial"
> with "protected source" or similar.

I'd rather call it "secret source" or simply "proprietary".  To me
"protected source" means that I am protected because I can see, modify
and distribute the source, i.e. it is Free Software :)

> GPL software is the technical fundament of
> of a numer commercially successful enterprises.
>
> I do know that not all software can be exposed freely
> to the many freeloading business men out there. Which
> is what the GPL will require of those selling binary
> programming produce.

Yes and the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) version 3 extends
the requirement to distribute the sources to those using the "software
as a service" business model.

--
Ludovic Brenta.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-24 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-23 20:44 ANN: Ahven 1.5 Tero Koskinen
2009-02-23 22:50 ` rolf.ebert_nospam_
2009-02-24  5:47   ` Tero Koskinen
2009-02-24 10:38     ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-02-24 17:45       ` Ludovic Brenta [this message]
2009-02-24 21:02         ` Tero Koskinen
2009-02-28  9:53 ` ANN: Ahven 1.6 Tero Koskinen
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