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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-17 01:08:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030723 Thunderbird/0.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. References: <3F367B39.8060108@noplace.com> <1060611604.45048@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F38DEBC.8040208@noplace.com> <1060696097.54858@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F3A306D.4050302@noplace.com> <3F3A3D5F.8020205@noplace.com> <3F3B8148.90607@noplace.com> <3F3CD097.40509@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3F3CD097.40509@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 07:47:37 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.147.239 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1061106457 162.83.147.239 (Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:47:37 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:47:37 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41622 Date: 2003-08-17T07:47:37+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > Obviously it would need a different license. Whats wrong with a license > that allowed all sorts of personal and business use, but not commercial, > for-profit use? Why wouldn't that be much used? Because the people who put software on shiny disks and make them available to the public for a fee will not be able to distribute yours. Any company that wants to use the software will have to go through its purchasing and legal departments, which means that that it will be used only if it is very important and valuable because of that overhead - think of how much you will charge for the software, as opposed to what it will cost for several hours of corporate counsel time, cutting purchase orders, managing licenses, et al.