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 13:22:12 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 15:28:30 -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 1047676931 74807 137.194.161.2 (14 Mar 2003 21:22:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:22:11 +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:35346 Date: 2003-03-14T15:28:30-06:00 This, I think is worth highlighting > ... which generally led to the resultant software being > considered an irrelevant curiosity because evaluating > whether particular use was legal or not just wasn't worth doing. : < ..snip ...> So in summary, to the OP, you can license how you like, but I cannot use your code in my product for a paint company (which happens to have a government contract for navy gray) which uses my software for inventory. ... too many ramifications for ad-hoc licensing schemes :-) -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address -- -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m -------------------------------------------------