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: 103376,915d37e7b8e0ec69 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!irazu.switch.ch!switch.ch!in2p3.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: and visual library once again Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:53:41 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <4357E40B.1050705@obry.net> <4358067B.50208@obry.net> <43580A43.4050507@obry.net> <1129861178.782874.87870@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <85559$4358f8dd$4995030$13708@ALLTEL.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1129910500 6021 195.25.228.57 (21 Oct 2005 16:01:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:01:40 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: fr, en In-Reply-To: <85559$4358f8dd$4995030$13708@ALLTEL.NET> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5856 Date: 2005-10-21T17:53:41+02:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley a �crit : > I'm also free to _request_ that they > not distribute the app (the GPL does not preclude doing this), and that > if they choose to distribute anyway it will negatively impact our future > business relationship. > No, you are not. The definition of "free software" makes it very clear that you are allowed to redistribute it freely. Note that ACT *never* tells something like this. They say that GAP is "intended" for education, or that Gnat Pro is "higly recommended" for professional software, but they are very careful never to tell explicitely something to the effect that it could not be redistributed - this would be against the GPL. The formulation is however designed to induce Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr