Re: Needed - Ada 2012 Compiler.

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

> Hence why Alex was correctly indicating that GPL Community Edition forestalls most practical forms of commercial business activity

I have an impression that nowadays "most forms of commercial business activity" involve setting up an account for accessing whatever on-line service.
This is why most apps today are free, anyway. In this context, GPL license on the app is not a problem at all.

No, I do not applaud the GPL licensing. I only state that the landscape of "commercial business activity" has significantly changed from what it was say two decades ago.

I also think that you are overestimating the willingness of customers to engage in further business activity of reproducing and re-selling what they have bought from you. This concept is being demonized since ever, but I don't think it has any bigger significance than a "traditional" counterfeiting.

No, I don't applaud GPL as a licensing scheme. I just don't consider it to be a showstopper.

> by entirely prohibiting AdaCore-esque dual licensing

Wrong. You can write your program (or a library) and sell it in the form of source code with whatever license you wish and allow your customer to compile it using whatever compiler they have. The compiler that you have used to verify (!) your product has no impact on the licensing of your source code. Thus, dual- or closed- licensing is still possible. Feel free to complete this scheme with any kind of NDA or other forms of legal agreements with your customers.

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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com