From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2acf1f37f6bdc5f2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Marco" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licences Date: 18 Oct 2005 12:48:22 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1129664902.259736.320470@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1129303351.767662.191580@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <80733$434fd8b0$49951a4$23477@ALLTEL.NET> <1129369145.676257.240480@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.46.245.232 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1129664907 2793 127.0.0.1 (18 Oct 2005 19:48:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 19:48:27 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1129369145.676257.240480@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/0.2 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 tus-gate3.raytheon.com:8080 (Squid/2.4.STABLE7) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=199.46.245.232; posting-account=PsyYVgwAAABRh0-dMt9NVps5JZnXlH2Z Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5778 Date: 2005-10-18T12:48:22-07:00 List-Id: It seems that a BSD style open source Ada runtime library needs to be created (compiled with GNAT). But is there enough steam left in the Ada community to support this endeavour? AdaCore obviously needs to force it's hand to stay in business and it can't discriminate between the small fry and the large aerospace giants which actually buys it's products.