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: 103376,81ad2a544a72a777 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: FSF libgnat References: <87irvuejhc.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87ek6iecj2.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <2Pe5f.148604$dP1.506527@newsc.telia.net> <871x2973q0.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> <87slup5l30.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> In-Reply-To: <87slup5l30.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 23:49:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1130284183 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:49:43 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:49:43 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5948 Date: 2005-10-25T23:49:43+00:00 List-Id: Samuel Tardieu wrote: > In particular, (iii) imposes heavy constraints on the license you can > choose for your own software. For example, you may not authorize > decompilation of your software, even if you indicate the addresses > corresponding to your code (to prevent Microsoft code from being > decompiled), because your whole executable must have terms as least as > protective as the Microsoft components you use. I see. That's quite similar to how a GPL library dictates the license of binaries with that library linked in. I don't see that different licenses will apply to different parts of the same file, as Ludovic seemed to say happens with the GMGPL. As you write yourself: "your whole executable". In fact, if they *had* allowed you to permit decompilation of your own parts of the executable but not of Microsoft's parts, *then* there would have been different licenses on different parts of the file. Instead, they let you put your own license on the whole file, but require that your license contain all of their restrictions. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu