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 15:27:20 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 17:33:40 -0600 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: References: <6a90b886.0303140243.7908f923@posting.google.com> <1047676770.614608@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <42tca.385$ug.208@newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net> 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 1047684440 75070 137.194.161.2 (14 Mar 2003 23:27:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:27:20 +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:35350 Date: 2003-03-14T17:33:40-06:00 > ... GPL it and that way any proprietry software developed > by the people Tony mentioned is unlikely to use it. The use of GPL does not prevent people from using code in proprietary software. It does prevent people from publically releasing the proprietary software without releasing the source code. I am not a lawyer, nor have I retained one to verify my position; however, my use of GPL code does not require me to make my source public unless I make the final product public. A military entity is not making their final products public (up to the point of impact anyway :-) either, so they can happily use GPL without any problems (unless, I believe, they try to sell the product to another entity). -- ------------------------------------------------- -- Merge vertically for real address -- -- s n p @ t . o -- k i e k c c m -------------------------------------------------