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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,752a3fab42ce9726 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.volia.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Answer of Request to AdaCore on licensing Status of GtkAda 2.4.0 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:06:31 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af31a1.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1153584391 14372 84.175.49.161 (22 Jul 2006 16:06:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 16:06:31 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5879 Date: 2006-07-22T18:06:31+02:00 List-Id: M E Leypold writes: > What I got, finally, was the following statement: > > "Let me be clearer, the only assumption you can make today for GtkAda downloaded > from the libre site in the past is that it is licensed under the GPL." > At this point I would be seriously worried if I were a paying customer of Adacore. What if they suddenly change their licenses for the Pro versions too? What if that already *has* *happened* at some point in the *future*? You need a whole new English grammar to describe this "time travelling license". This is a company I would definitively never buy from. -- Michael Bode