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From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future
Date: 1999/02/07
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dennison@telepath.com writes:

> I'm currently trying to find a good open-source license to use, and this
> trips over just the issue I'm comming up against. I don't wan't to use some
> "idiosyncratic" license, because that in and of itself could somewhat limit
> the software's use. But at the same time the GPL (and even to a lesser extent
> the LGPL) seem to have unfortunate "infectious" attributes. Next chance I get
> I'll look into the Ada Community License; hopefully it's better.

I don't know who aside from the BCs uses the ACL (which was derived
from the Perl Artistic Licence). I'm contemplating using the licence
used by ACT in their Ada.* code instead .. seems to meet all anyone
could wish. However, no rush as yet!