Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available

Preben Randhol wrote:
> Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:

>>That might be possible, but I suspect that FSF would be happy to pay
>>the cost of disputing such a contract in court.
>
> Why? I don't see how a (GM)GPL software license influences the
> conditions for qualifying to get access to a paid-support service?

That condition can be seen as an attempt to do something the (GM)GPL
clearly says is not allowed. I am pretty sure I would be able to
convince a Danish court that such a clause should be considered a
breach of the agreement in the (GM)GPL. Whether it would help me much
with getting support afterwards is a different matter.

>>Another angle is that whenever I do consulting work, one of the
>>conditions is that the code can be published under an Open Source
>>license (which one is generally up to the costumer). As long as you
>>give your costumers a chance to get first to the market, it seems
>>like they don't find it problematic.
>
> The problem is if you have spent 1-10M euro on research and have
> come up with results you don't want the competition to take from you
> by knowing how the database is constructed.

If you distribute the database and it really is 1-10M euro better, you
can be sure that people will find out anyway. The trick is to stay in
front of the pack.

I don't know any software companies doing research on quite that
scale, but the one chemical processing company I know does spend that
kind of money on developing new technologies - and then publish it [1].
By the time the articles are reviewed and published, they're already
working on the next improvement anyway.

Greetings,

Jacob

[1] Occassionally as patents, but they claim (and seem) to try to
avoid taking out patents, since they mostly are a waste of money
on lawyers.
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