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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?windows-1252?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126774252.966025.283640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126774578.526509.159960@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2202138.fOMkUmLaHt@linux1.krischik.com> <87zmqe855m.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> <87ll1ucs1e.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <87ll1ucs1e.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 21:23:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1127165017 217.209.116.179 (Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:23:37 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 23:23:37 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4926 Date: 2005-09-19T21:23:37+00:00 List-Id: Florian Weimer wrote: > Whether compiling the application on-site is fine, I don't know. I asked this question to David Axmark of MySQL AB some time ago. They've changed the license of the MySQL client library from LGPL to GPL, but you can get another license if you pay for it. I asked as follows: If a program that uses the MySQL library is distributed as source code � but with a non-free license � and compiled on the customer's computer, does that require buying a license? He said that if I were to ask Richard Stallman or Eben Moglen this, I would get a long exposition but no clear answer, and that's basically what I got from David too. He said that he considered it a matter of intent, and talked a little about how lawyers can pick a text apart until you don't recognize it. As I understood it he thought it was acceptable if you'd distribute as source code for technical reasons but not if you'd do it to circumvent the need to buy a license, but it seems rather unclear what the GPL actually says about this. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu