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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c7b0b777188b7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:17:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.220.44 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net 1128536276 67.3.220.44 (Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:17:56 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:17:56 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5414 Date: 2005-10-05T18:17:56+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > [1] Quite to the contrary; the more I hear the "selfish argument", > the more I feel inclined to package GNAT GPL Edition, just to teach > selfish people that if they refuse to give, then they cannot take, > as Georg Bauhaus said so nicely. Much of what I release publicly is under the GMGPL. This gives the recipient greater freedom than the GPL. They can take parts of my application and include it in their work, and release it under any license they choose. But I guess I'm just selfish and deserve what I get. -- Jeff Carter "We'll make Rock Ridge think it's a chicken that got caught in a tractor's nuts!" Blazing Saddles 87