Re: and visual library once again

[Szymon Guz <alpha@skynet.org.pl_WITHOUT>]

Larry Kilgallen napisał(a):
> In article <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Steve Whalen" <SteveWhalen001@hotmail.com> writes:
> 
>>>Szymon,
>>>
>>>
>>>>right, but the GPL licence isnt't what I need, and that't why I'm asking
>>>>if really using GNAT the program have to be on the GPL licence.
>>>
>>>I pretty well understood what you wanted ;), but note that there is so
>>>much confusion on this issue. All I have replied to you is just what you
>>>have asked. You want to sell your program, no problem with GNAT GPL.
>>>
>>
>>Yes he can sell his program under the GPL license (as required by GNAT
>>GPL).
>>
>>But it is important to remind anyone asking such a question that they
>>can sell the program ONLY if they give a copy of the source code to the
>>customer they sell it to (including the right of that customer to give
>>the source and binary to anyone else they want per the GPL).  That's a
>>pretty big difference for most people who "sell their programs". It can
>>lead to the immediate termination of your ability to sell any other
>>copies of the program to anyone else in many markets.
> 
> 
> It is not a problem for anyone who actually sells their software.
> 
> It is a problem for those who follow the customary practice of
> Microsoft, Symantec, Computer Associates and actually _license_
> their software rather than selling it.

do you mean that this is a bad practice ?