Randy Brukardt wrote: > Is there any preference between GPL v2 and GPL v3 from the Debian > packagers? > Is there some other license that I should consider instead?
Hello Randy, First of all, I'd like to thank you for considering the re-licensing of your tool. Indeed, the request came from the Debian packagers, specifically Stephe Leake, but the license issues are not specific to Debian. I personally do not have any preference between GPLv2 and GPLv3 but, of course, the Free Software Foundation recommends v3, so I suggest you use "v3 or later". If you would like to allow proprietary software derived from the formatting tool, I suggest the LGPLv3 instead. Another license that you might find acceptable is the one for the Ada Reference Manual itself. Unfortunately, there is no legal means, in a license, to allow free redistribution for some licensees but require a license fee from others (i.e. a license must be non-discriminatory). So, in order to encourage monetary compensation for your company, I would suggest that you allow free redistribution of the tool but offer commercial services to accompany the tool. This is what AdaControl does; the man page (that I wrote for Debian, incidentally) contains: > Commercial support is available for AdaControl, see file > /usr/share/doc/adacontrol/support.txt. If you plan to use > AdaControl for industrial projects, or if you want it to be customized > or extended to match your own needs, please contact Adalog at > [email protected]. And the file /usr/share/doc/adacontrol/support.txt contains: > Adalog provides commercial support for AdaControl. Support includes > the following services: > > * Help with installation procedures > > * Explanations regarding the use of the tool, and help for translating > coding standards into AdaControl rules. > > * Correction of problems encountered in the use of AdaControl. > Pre-releases versions of AdaControl are provided for each corrected > problem. > > * Access to beta-versions before they are released > > * Keeping in sync customer's own rules with the latest version > of AdaControl. > > Adalog cannot correct problems whose origin is due to compiler bugs or > defects in the implementation of ASIS (contact your compiler provider > for support on these problems). However, Adalog will do its best > effort to find workarounds for such problems. > > > In Addition, Adalog can provide various services: > > - Custom improvements to AdaControl, including application-specific > rules; > > - consulting services for defining coding standards; > > - consulting services in all areas related to Ada, real-time, > compilation, etc. See http://www.adalog.fr for details. > > For pricing information about these services, please contact > [email protected] AdaControl has been in Debian since June 2006. Jean-Pierre could perhaps tell us if anyone contracted him after obtaining AdaControl from Debian :) -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/56dcbd60b42387ecdfd7d6f53b02d...@localhost
