From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:52:37 +0100
Date: 2005-09-24T19:52:37+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r7bei9hm.fsf@grendel.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20eZe.3450$QE1.1476@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net
Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com> writes:
> Doesn't matter. Even if it is strictly internal development, a big
> corporation won't want to accept any restrictions on what they
> develop as their own IP. They don't know how they might want to use
> it tomorrow. If it has license restrictions on their IP, this might
> preclude them from selling it to someone on their own terms at a
> later date. Like I said, as a businessman, I would not accept that
> for anything I pay to develop.
But the only restriction is that if you compile with the GPL compiler
and release *that* binary you are affected; if you recompile with any
other GNAT you are not.
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-21 18:57 GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? Marc A. Criley
2005-09-21 19:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-21 20:17 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-09-23 21:31 ` Chad R. Meiners
2005-09-23 21:44 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-09-24 21:49 ` Chad R. Meiners
2005-09-24 22:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-24 22:50 ` Chad R. Meiners
2005-09-25 15:12 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-25 16:26 ` Chad R. Meiners
2005-09-25 18:42 ` rleif
2005-09-25 18:42 ` rleif
2005-09-26 18:28 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-09-26 18:46 ` tmoran
2005-09-26 19:06 ` Hyman Rosen
2005-09-23 23:26 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-24 22:17 ` Chad R. Meiners
2005-09-24 6:30 ` Brian May
2005-09-24 13:41 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-24 14:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-24 15:10 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-24 15:53 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-24 22:40 ` Chad R. Meiners
2005-09-25 15:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-24 18:52 ` Simon Wright [this message]
2005-09-24 21:25 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-24 15:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-24 19:01 ` Simon Wright
2005-09-24 20:51 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-27 10:04 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2005-09-28 21:17 ` Simon Wright
2005-09-29 9:12 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2005-09-24 21:35 ` Chad R. Meiners
2005-09-23 23:30 ` Michael Bode
2005-09-23 23:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-24 1:22 ` Michael Bode
2005-09-24 11:52 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-21 20:01 ` Samuel Tardieu
2005-09-21 20:20 ` Keith Thompson
2005-09-22 6:24 ` Brian May
2005-09-22 7:30 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-22 13:35 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-09-22 12:10 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-22 12:29 ` Preben Randhol
2005-09-22 13:46 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-09-23 13:09 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-23 13:03 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-23 16:29 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-23 18:08 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-09-23 23:18 ` Georg Bauhaus
2005-09-24 11:40 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-24 14:10 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-24 18:44 ` Robert A. Matthews
2005-09-24 14:02 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-22 13:42 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-09-23 13:12 ` Marin David Condic
2005-09-24 8:10 ` Frank
2005-09-24 10:53 ` Larry Kilgallen
2005-09-24 11:59 ` Ludovic Brenta
2005-09-25 8:42 ` Martin Krischik
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