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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!infeed-1.proxad.net!news4-e.free.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <432AC7F2.4020505@_delete_this_rochebrune.org> Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:26:10 +0200 From: Stephane Riviere Organization: Rochebrune User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; fr-FR; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: fr, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126868191.519850.18060@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <873bo5jjb6.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> In-Reply-To: <873bo5jjb6.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Sep 2005 15:26:32 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.252.86.193 X-Trace: 1126877192 news4-e.free.fr 5906 82.252.86.193:2284 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4793 Date: 2005-09-16T15:26:32+02:00 List-Id: > Do you think that the DoD (the funder of the early GNAT versions) > intent was to restrict the use of GNAT to programs using the GPL > license and to AdaCore (which didn't exist) customers? True ! GNAT was funded for widely spread Ada uses... > The real problem is not technical. It is still possible to build a > "clean" compiler which can be used on any kind of sources. The problem > is political. AdaCore's move causes a lot of confusion in the > community and may make companies unsure of what they can and can't do. I deeply agree... > I still fail to understand this tactical move. I can't understand too because, at the same time, there is no business announces from AdaCore for SMEs and individual professionals. May be it is a market to take... May be not (AdaCore may change its mind later). May be it's some sad news... May be, as Ludovic told us, a new start... -- Stephane Riviere Oleron Island - France http://stephane.rochebrune.org OpenPgp Key <5fd6a1e6> available on the web site above