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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Corey Minyard Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Date: 1999/02/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441876312 Sender: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36B856E4.D921C1D@bton.ac.uk> <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner> <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.171318.1@eisner> <79dp2o$s2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36ba730b.35540068@news.pacbell.net> <79eq4l$m1a$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36bb301f.2303870@news.pacbell.net> <79fmg1$fn0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79fvk4$npp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Organization: Wonderforce Research Reply-To: minyard@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dennison@telepath.com writes: > I'm currently trying to find a good open-source license to use, and this > trips over just the issue I'm comming up against. I don't wan't to use some > "idiosyncratic" license, because that in and of itself could somewhat limit > the software's use. But at the same time the GPL (and even to a lesser extent > the LGPL) seem to have unfortunate "infectious" attributes. Next chance I get > I'll look into the Ada Community License; hopefully it's better. > What is the problem with the LGPL? I used that for my components. It allows inclusion into 3rd party programs without releasing source to that 3rd party program. It does require that you distribute (or tell how to get) the included library. If you make any changes to the LGPL'ed library, you are also required to give the changes away. So is there some reason I should switch? -- Corey Minyard Internet: minyard@acm.org Work: minyard@nortelnetworks.com UUCP: minyard@wf-rch.cirr.com