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,FREEMAIL_FROM,
	MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no
	version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,a875d9649dde34e3
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail
From: Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Gnat Pro and the GPL
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 19:18:39 +0100
Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or
Message-ID: <mailman.219.1097086714.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
References: <es6kl0pddjvs52ch5sd7hp69m8roimj8ih@4ax.com>
	<mailman.134.1096502599.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
	<4e8fe302b927b504b93983dba6b0d79f@localhost.talkaboutprogramming.com>
	<cjk6e6$t7h$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
	<mailman.148.1096656054.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
	<cjpveo$n6o$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
	<mailman.182.1096894933.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
	<87y8imp52w.fsf@insalien.org>
	<mailman.211.1097058780.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
	<khS8d.105206$dP1.388813@newsc.telia.net>
	<mailman.217.1097083001.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
	<9kW8d.105219$dP1.389040@newsc.telia.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1097086714 99644 212.85.156.195 (6 Oct 2004
 18:18:34 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 18:18:34 +0000 (UTC)
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Return-Path: <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US;
	rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
In-Reply-To: <9kW8d.105219$dP1.389040@newsc.telia.net>
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 06 Oct 2004 18:18:22.0502 (UTC)
	FILETIME=[DD260460:01C4ABD0]
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org
X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4
Precedence: list
List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup"
	<comp.lang.ada.ada-france.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://www.ada-france.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada>,
	<mailto:comp.lang.ada-request@ada-france.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Post: <mailto:comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
List-Help: <mailto:comp.lang.ada-request@ada-france.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://www.ada-france.org/mailman/listinfo/comp.lang.ada>,
	<mailto:comp.lang.ada-request@ada-france.org?subject=subscribe>
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4823
Date: 2004-10-06T19:18:39+01:00

Bj�rn Persson wrote:
 >>> ... do you think the Free Software
>>> Foundation would issue a special proprietary license to Adacore?
>>
>> Why not? Many open source businesses do.
> 
> Ever heard of a guy named Richard Stallman, founder and leader of said 
> foundation? Ever heard anything about his opinions?...

So at last we know the difference between open source and free software: 
Open source software can be dual licensed, and free software cannot! Ah, 
the beauty of simple things :-)