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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.67.4.3 with SMTP id ca3mr40341043pad.23.1415836903477; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:01:43 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.22.13 with SMTP id z13mr40156obe.5.1415836903270; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:01:43 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!news.glorb.com!r10no2071952igi.0!news-out.google.com!c9ni12433igv.0!nntp.google.com!hl2no818581igb.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 16:01:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=73.46.72.234; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 73.46.72.234 References: <87fvdr2vdv.fsf@adaheads.sparre-andersen.dk> <54609F34.4080201@spam.spam> <35f01472-3510-4f67-8765-006fa8591c35@googlegroups.com> <9tc8w.73007$ZT5.37595@fx07.iad> <22a3816a-4e89-48f0-a126-dce581781beb@googlegroups.com> <084b1934-9641-425e-85ec-293e0334413e@googlegroups.com> <86bf69c8-eb08-4696-b6c9-3784f5c42213@googlegroups.com> <87389olqie.fsf@ixod.org> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <15829ae5-82c3-4e89-a0be-40e830f89c35@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: What exactly is the licensing situation with GNAT? From: David Botton Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:01:43 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:23199 Date: 2014-11-12T16:01:43-08:00 List-Id: > Now they have no advertising costs, almost no development costs (what the= y have? a developer? two?) whatever they get from deep pockets is almost ne= t profit. Some recent upstream from AdaCore gcc/ada: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=3Dgcc= .git;a=3Dhistory;f=3Dgcc/ada I may not agree with AdaCore's making a Shareware GNAT, because it harms po= tential use of Ada in markets they don't even start to understand, but they= do good work and a lot of it. I would like them for the benefit of Ada in all markets to consider other a= pproaches as I presented to them. However if they don't my plan is to drive= the GNAT-FSF compilers into those markets as the _Professional_ compilers = they are. Which ultimately will still net them the "big fish" in those mark= ets. AdaCore is not "costing" on the results of the government funds if giving b= ack to the FSF, only being very shortsighted. David Boton