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From: Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada_Arrays Project
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 14:41:13 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2003-11-27, M?rio Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:
> Nothing "wrong", it just isn't commercial. If you don't want to make
> money then GMGPL is fine. The basic idea of commercial open source is
> that if an (open source) component ends up being part of a lucrative
> setup then the authors of the component receive a fair reward. 

Yes, exactly, a big fat *IF*.

> Before objecting please review the material indexed on the SDC site,
> for example my essay Open Source Business Found Parasitic, Bob Leif's
> Ada Developers Cooperative License, and the Commented Conditions of
> Use of SDC Artifacts. And I suggest we don't discuss the general issue
> here (it's OT). You're very welcome to do it on the SDC forum of
> course (www.softdevelcoop.org).

Well, whatever. I wouldn't touch the library if it has some strange
license. If you are talking about a *program* things are different, but
a *library*...

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