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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "G.B." Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 12:06:53 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <0Kgqw.953330$_k.685364@fx16.iad> <199c826a-923e-497f-a8e2-9e732c8a5665@googlegroups.com> <87bnmetex4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4ae7f0d5-d681-4be9-95bc-b5e789b3ad40@googlegroups.com> <87tx06rve6.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lhlirpk0.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <79f3eff7-2b45-40ae-af94-fa9a17426d82@googlegroups.com> <87tx03rbr2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Reply-To: nonlegitur@futureapps.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:06:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b96887e80893c84a90c3007226ca0d1c"; logging-data="17840"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19bxPUsk5uajjdiy9BgnnfmvGDxf5EQDXE=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:Pvxeik27hy2bcwTzmt2q1yBi5E4= Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24477 Date: 2015-01-08T12:06:53+01:00 List-Id: On 08.01.15 05:09, Hubert wrote: > I havent' looked at it closely but I believe they offer their latest > version for free even? And it is something you can make an applicaiton > with and sell it. This is misleading, as Microsoft's cost-free versions of their software would not allow selling some Microsoft style applications made using them. "Non-enterprise" and "individual developer" are terms Microsoft uses in their licensing white paper. The existence of a white paper about licensing should be a hint in itself.