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!newsfeed.icp.pl!newsfeed.atman.pl!not-for-mail From: Szymon Guz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licences Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:10:37 +0200 Organization: ATMAN Message-ID: References: <1129303351.767662.191580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <6079939.ppPQ0zCOeG@linux1.krischik.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: staticline10736.toya.net.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: node3.news.atman.pl 1129371404 723 85.89.162.229 (15 Oct 2005 10:16:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@atman.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:16:44 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us, en In-Reply-To: <6079939.ppPQ0zCOeG@linux1.krischik.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0541-3, 2005-10-14), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5689 Date: 2005-10-15T12:10:37+02:00 List-Id: Martin Krischik napisa=B3(a): > Lucretia wrote: >=20 >=20 >>After having waited absolutely ages for a GNAT from AdaCore, I was >>supremely pissed off that they GPL'd it, as the extra tools are only >>available through them. Now, I'm working on some code that wanted to >>(attempt to ;-D) make money on. >=20 >=20 > But you can sell GPL programs. There is nothing wrong with that. Almost= all > Linux distributors do it. >=20 > GPL means that you can't just take the work of others to incorporate in= to a > closed source project - you have to give back to the comunity as well. >=20 well, for me the GPL means sth different: I can write program and sell=20 it on the GPL licence and the the buyer can sell it too without my=20 permission and I have nothing from that. When I write superextraprogram=20 I want and I need to have froma that some money so I dont' want to sell=20 it on the GPL licence.