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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2d9aad84ea395c96 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-14 10:36:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: sk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: non military license for ada Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:42:03 -0600 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: References: <6a90b886.0303140243.7908f923@posting.google.com> Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1047667003 74384 137.194.161.2 (14 Mar 2003 18:36:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 18:36:43 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020828 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35340 Date: 2003-03-14T12:42:03-06:00 > The leader of the free world are _not_ the defense > industry; they are the politicians. The trouble is, these politicians are beholden to specialized interests ... tobacco, arms etc. However, the real issue of this thread is the one of whether the software will be used if it is under an alternative license ? Unless a license is a known Open Source license (GPL, BSD etc) or a proprietary license by a well established company, I personally will not go near the software. This means I am not one of the responders to V Porton's efforts. Wonderful as the softwarwe might be, the licensing is so fuzzy and V Porton does not have the status of MS or IBM, sorry. I am sure that a large proportion of people have a similar position. So license it how you like, but a non standard license probably dooms a product to some obscure non-acceptance. -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address -- -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m -------------------------------------------------