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From: Gautier on 12 Jan 2008 14:39 Hi, I had the same issue when putting a project on SourceForge. My own liberal "do what you want but keep the license please" license was not convenient, but they directed me towards a similar license, the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php Maybe you'll be happy with it... Gautier framefritti(a)gmail.com wrote: > On Jan 12, 2:37 pm, Tomek Walkuski <tomek.walku...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> someone wrote about need such kind of simple, non-GPL in "The future >> of Ada is at risk" thread. >> > > Sorry, this is not an answer to your question, but another (slightly > OT) question that yours triggered. I have an old C++ library of mine > (for computations with rings, fields and algebraic stuff). Triggered > by the discussion "future of Ada" I am thinking to rewrite it in Ada > (ok, maybe symbolic computation is not very important in business > applications, but there is where my skills live). I would like to > make the library available with an open-source licence, but not GPL > since I understand that the clause that any derivative work must be > GPLed (maybe I am not precise here, but please do not flame me ;-) > keeps professional away from GPLed library. > > After such a long introduction my question finally arrives: can you > suggest any open-source licence which could be used in this case ? > (and maybe in other Ada libraries to be developed) > > Thanks 16#3E8# > > PS: no flame, please... :-) ______________________________________________________________ Gautier -- http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/index.htm Ada programming -- http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm NB: For a direct answer, e-mail address on the Web site!
From: Dmitry A. Kazakov on 12 Jan 2008 15:26 On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 10:36:48 -0800 (PST), framefritti(a)gmail.com wrote: > I would like to > make the library available with an open-source licence, but not GPL > since I understand that the clause that any derivative work must be > GPLed (maybe I am not precise here, but please do not flame me ;-) > keeps professional away from GPLed library. Would not GMGPL be OK? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMGPL -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
From: Robert A Duff on 12 Jan 2008 16:58
"framefritti(a)gmail.com" <framefritti(a)gmail.com> writes: > After such a long introduction my question finally arrives: can you > suggest any open-source licence which could be used in this case ? > (and maybe in other Ada libraries to be developed) I think it's a good idea to use some widely-used license rather than making up your own. People are scared of strange licenses that they don't already understand. I suggest you take a look at the GMGPL. It's similar to LGPL, but more appropriate for Ada (C doesn't have generics!). - Bob |