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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,577c9f9c0cdd76d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: cts@kampong.aedinc.net (Craig Spannring) Subject: Re: Confusing language, was Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing Date: 1999/11/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 544894138 References: <7vs4g9$7hs1@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 941824731 208.132.31.130 (Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:58:51 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 11:58:51 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Aidan Skinner wrote: > >[3] There's one exception to this AFAIK, and that's that a vendor who >owns the copyright can licence the product without code, or under a >different licence to suit their customers (eg BSD instead of GPL). >-- Of course it gets a little muddled if the original author accepts patches from other people. If the other people patched some GPL'd code, and the original author accepted those patches, the GPL would tend to infect the vendors copyrighted code. -- ======================================================================= Life is short. | Craig Spannring Bike hard, ski fast. | cts@internetcds.com --------------------------------+------------------------------------