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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.banetele.no!uninett.no!ntnu.no!randhol From: randhol@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:16:35 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <1126875543.239666.325290@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <3467d$432b0af1$49956f8$22115@ALLTEL.NET> <87r7bi6e5o.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no X-Trace: orkan.itea.ntnu.no 1127308595 17794 129.241.210.178 (21 Sep 2005 13:16:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 13:16:35 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (FreeBSD) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4999 Date: 2005-09-21T13:16:35+00:00 List-Id: In article , Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote: >That might be possible, but I suspect that FSF would be happy to pay >the cost of disputing such a contract in court. Why? I don't see how a (GM)GPL software license influences the conditions for qualifying to get access to a paid-support service? >Another angle is that whenever I do consulting work, one of the >conditions is that the code can be published under an Open Source >license (which one is generally up to the costumer). As long as you >give your costumers a chance to get first to the market, it seems like >they don't find it problematic. The problem is if you have spent 1-10M euro on research and have come up with results you don't want the competition to take from you by knowing how the database is constructed.