Re: In praise of Ada Freeware

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <86B97.12723$ar1.39955@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> I'm being a bit unfair here, as this is but a single example. But if you mean
> "Freeware" to include terms such as these, I would submit that your argument
> would be better served by something at least a *little* more free. Again, I
> think you *should* be shooting for (if you weren't already), "permissively
> licensed" Free Software.

Yes, that sounds a bit restrictive.  As I said, the emergence of
GPL (and desireable software using it) caused them to change the
rules to allow submitters to set their own boundaries.

The only piece of this I have worked with lately has much looser
rules, something like "don't erase my copyright from the source".
Someone asked in USENET why that item didn't do XYZ.  I mentioned
that I found it easy to adapt to make it do XYZ, and I later got
email from the author asking if he could get my changes to put
into the master copy he keeps.

Neither of us engaged a lawyer, although we certainly do have a formal
agreement when my company buys software from his company.