From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-65-14.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=3.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!news.gegeweb.eu!gegeweb.org!usenet-fr.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp1-2.free.fr!not-for-mail From: Thomas Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Mail-Copies-To: nobody Subject: License for small Ada.* complements MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 01:28:40 +0200 Message-ID: <62d88fa8$0$18729$426a34cc@news.free.fr> Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jul 2022 01:28:41 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 91.175.52.121 X-Trace: 1658359721 news-4.free.fr 18729 91.175.52.121:10219 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64113 List-Id: hi :-) i would like your opinion please, about which license i should use for a part of my libraries. i begun from a very small Ada.* complement : http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/rapid/trunk/mcc_gui/mcc-str.ads?view=m arkup&pathrev=268 at that point, it was obvious to me that the smallness of the code meant that it would be better for the common good to release it into the public domain, than under any free software license. now i've added some code to this, and i want to continue. ...and I'm thinking about switching to a license like LGPL. do you have an opinion about that? isn't that too disadvantageous in some cases? for example, if gnat wants to integrate my code, is LGPL compatible enough with their own license? -- RAPID maintainer http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/rapid/