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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,effb80d4bb7716dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran) Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future Date: 1999/02/05 Message-ID: <36ba730b.35540068@news.pacbell.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 440870061 References: <790f4q$3l@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <36B856E4.D921C1D@bton.ac.uk> <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner> <79d0db$6h5$1@remarQ.com> <1999Feb4.171318.1@eisner> <79dp2o$s2h$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@pacbell.net X-Trace: typhoon-sf.pbi.net 918189333 206.170.2.146 (Thu, 04 Feb 1999 20:35:33 PDT) Organization: SBC Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 20:35:33 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > GNAT does NOT use the LGPL, whatever >made you think it does? Aye, that's *exactly* the question. Perhaps if a new sacred terminology hadn't been invented for the FSF religion, but ordinary words had ordinary meanings, fewer people would misunderstand or feel that they didn't understand. Company lawyers don't freak out when they see a Microsoft copyright, but they may say "what's this" when they see a "copyleft". Non-lawyers think they understand "free" but it turns out to have a secondary, different, meaning than the first one that came to mind - and the non-lawyers start getting scared and running to the lawyers. But what's done is done and FSF software will just have to bear with it..