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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: ANN: Ahven 1.5
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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.