From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ole-hjalmar.kristensen@substitute_employer_here.com>
Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...
Date: 27 Jun 2006 09:26:26 +0200
Date: 2006-06-27T09:26:26+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wvbrac7zhxel.fsf@techra25.norway.sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: n1nu92praahokl5ev7ih75j9f2t09hugt8@4ax.com
Completely agree. The current licensing model of GNAT does very little
to promote the growth of Ada, but brings a lot of FUD. Once again we
are shooting ourselves in the foot.
>>>>> "DLB" == Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:
DLB> On 25 Jun 2006 22:49:48 +0200, M E Leypold
DLB> <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> declaimed
DLB> the following in comp.lang.ada:
>>
>> Completely right. But: There is also the case when the customer wants
>> the developer(s) to sign an NDA. Usually (happened too me) these
>> customers are deeply uneasy with the GPL around. They fear (and I
DLB> Don't know how cost effective it would be -- but, from my viewpoint,
DLB> at least, if a customer wants an NDA in the contract negotiations, the
DLB> developer could bring in the cost of the GnatPro license (with compiler
DLB> system with license treated as part of the deliverables, or obtained by
DLB> the customer with developer working onsite)
DLB> The GPL curse applies to small independent developers seeking to
DLB> produce generally marketable products -- the next Quicken, or
DLB> VersaCheck, for example... Given the prohibitive cost of obtaining a
DLB> closed-distribution capability for GNAT, they might easily chose to
DLB> substitute some other language -- M$ C++ compiler without the
DLB> VisualStudio environment appears to be available for the download; Sun's
DLB> Java seems to be behind a number of applications...
DLB> --
DLB> Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG
DLB> wlfraed@ix.netcom.com wulfraed@bestiaria.com
DLB> HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
DLB> (Bestiaria Support Staff: web-asst@bestiaria.com)
DLB> HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/
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2006-06-19 1:05 can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions klobert
2006-06-19 8:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-19 9:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-19 10:29 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-19 11:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-22 23:08 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-23 8:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-23 17:24 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 0:08 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-24 10:01 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 11:32 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 12:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 13:16 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 15:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 17:43 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 18:27 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 19:26 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 19:45 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 19:47 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 23:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-25 11:48 ` M E Leypold
[not found] ` <rntq9299uobutv707i07gqi87oeba18e63@4ax.com>
2006-06-24 21:07 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-25 17:50 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-06-25 18:47 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-25 20:49 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 11:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-26 12:19 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 12:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-26 13:46 ` M E Leypold
[not found] ` <n1nu92praahokl5ev7ih75j9f2t09hugt8@4ax.com>
2006-06-26 12:08 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 18:35 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-06-26 19:29 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 20:31 ` community supported Ada environment (was: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...) Björn Persson
2006-06-26 19:01 ` can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-26 19:50 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 20:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-27 22:15 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 1:55 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 1:54 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 2:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28 2:48 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 21:10 ` Teaching languages (was: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...) Björn Persson
2006-06-26 21:39 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 18:58 ` can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-26 19:33 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:03 ` Pascal Obry
2006-06-27 19:29 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 19:34 ` Pascal Obry
2006-06-27 19:57 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:12 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 22:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 22:44 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 9:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 12:44 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 18:35 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:40 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 5:55 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 22:35 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 22:34 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 22:33 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:40 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-27 22:49 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 2:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28 5:53 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 12:46 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 20:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-30 8:20 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-30 12:47 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-07-01 2:20 ` Steve
2006-07-01 8:54 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-01 9:56 ` Pascal Obry
2006-07-01 12:03 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-01 12:48 ` Pascal Obry
2006-07-01 13:19 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28 22:35 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 7:26 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen [this message]
2006-06-27 8:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-06-27 10:51 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2006-06-28 19:03 ` Niklas Holsti
2006-06-28 19:42 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 22:34 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-25 11:55 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-24 11:41 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-24 12:38 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 13:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 14:13 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-25 21:28 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-25 21:42 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 15:59 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-24 12:58 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 13:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 14:39 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 14:33 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-25 11:22 ` Samuel Tardieu
2006-06-25 11:55 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 12:45 ` Marius Amado-Alves
2006-06-24 11:16 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 11:12 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 21:37 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 12:49 ` gshapovalov
2006-06-24 13:10 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 13:27 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 14:06 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 14:48 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 15:40 ` george
2006-06-24 16:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-24 17:51 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 16:26 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-25 21:09 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-25 21:31 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 13:55 ` Georg Bauhaus
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