Mneson announcement

Mneson announcement

[Marius Amado Alves]

Slowness problem solved :-)
Nothing can stop Mneson now!
Help still welcome for a host of things.
http://www.liacc.up.pt/~maa/mneson

Re: Mneson announcement

[Wojtek Narczynski]

Hello,

I have two licensing questions:

- Have you managed to make any money with this license? Do you know of
any such case?

- Isn't your code, by accident, GPL? AI-302 reference implementation
seems to be such license.

Regards,
Wojtek

Re: Mneson announcement

[Marius Amado Alves]

Wojtek Narczynski wrote:
> I have two licensing questions:
> 
> - Have you managed to make any money with this license? Do you know of
> any such case?

No, not yet. (I'm not particularly happy with the current form of the
license. There are other forms of the same philosophy. Explore the SDC
references. The philosophy is utterly simple: it's open source, and if
the user ever makes money, then the author gets a cut. A number of
people seem to find this the most sensible open source philosophy. Ask
Bob Leif how it can be implemented... and stand back :-)

> - Isn't your code, by accident, GPL? 

No.

> AI-302 reference implementation
> seems to be such license.

God's in the details. AI-302 is like GMGPL (GNAT-Modified GPL), which is
equivalent to LGPL, not to GPL. You can instantiate the generic units
like crazy.

Also note that:
- Ada.Containers will take the place of AI302 soon
- Mneson does not desperatly depend on any of these