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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!gy7opw3oYmwPg+L8gXeD2w.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: License for small Ada.* complements Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 13:02:36 -0700 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86h7361dpf.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <62d88fa8$0$18729$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <86sfmsi7ir.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <62dbe7d5$0$2985$426a74cc@news.free.fr> <86mtcyu1c6.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <62dd5529$0$18752$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="20291"; posting-host="gy7opw3oYmwPg+L8gXeD2w.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (windows-nt) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1://57asfKVHw8SeqAfEdwj6uQCNU= Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:64135 List-Id: Thomas writes: > In article <86mtcyu1c6.fsf@stephe-leake.org>, > Stephen Leake wrote: > >> Thomas writes: >> >> > In article <86sfmsi7ir.fsf@stephe-leake.org>, >> > Stephen Leake wrote: >> > >> >> Thomas writes: >> >> >> >> > i would like your opinion please, about which license i should use for a >> >> > part of my libraries. >> >> >> >> Always use the GPL unless you have a specific reason not to; ie, a >> >> customer asks/pays for a different license. >> > >> > do you use GPL rather than LGPL on libraries ?? >> >> Yes; GPL 3 has a better way of handling libraries. > > could you precise me please? > > does it allow to use it in any proprietary program, as required for this > kind of generic libraries? You did not mention this requirement before. > do you use "pragma License Modified_GPL" or "pragma License GPL" on > libraries? Modified_GPL allows use in proprietary programs; GPL does not. -- -- Stephe