Licensing, again

["Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Carroll, Andrew wrote :
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> >What is "correct" open source licensing? Libraries licensed under the
> >GPL are "open source" all right, as per the OSI definition.
>
> Well, you seem to know more about it than I do so maybe you can tell me
> what the "correct" open source licensing is/should be.  It sounds to me,
> from the posts about the licensing, is that the licensing changed and
> the new licensing does not meet many people's needs.  Hence the question
> about developing a compiler that does meet the people's needs;
> specifically the open source community.
>
> >
> [snip]
> > See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing

Read that page. I really mean it. Have you read that page? Really?

Also, see
http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html#How-the-Ada-compiler-for-Etch-was-chosen

again, I really mean it when I say "see this page".

The recent discussion did not apply to libgnat but to the other
libraries from AdaCore: AWS, ASIS-for-GNAT, GLADE, XML/Ada, and above
all, GtkAda. The arguments, for or against, are the same.

You also seem to have an implicit definition of "people's needs" which
I think you should explain better.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.