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: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!news.germany.com!news.nask.pl!news.nask.org.pl!newsfeed.atman.pl!not-for-mail From: Szymon Guz Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:52:17 +0200 Organization: ATMAN Message-ID: References: <4357E40B.1050705@obry.net> <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.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: node1.news.atman.pl 1129880970 98221 85.89.162.229 (21 Oct 2005 07:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@atman.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:49:30 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: pl, en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0542-4, 2005-10-20), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5844 Date: 2005-10-21T09:52:17+02:00 List-Id: Larry Kilgallen napisa=B3(a): > In article <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, "Ste= ve Whalen" writes: >=20 >>>Szymon, >>> >>> >>>>right, but the GPL licence isnt't what I need, and that't why I'm ask= ing >>>>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 y= ou >>>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. >=20 >=20 > It is not a problem for anyone who actually sells their software. >=20 > 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 ?