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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware
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> Meanwhile, in the world of single-vendor languages, Microsoft
> is releasing program analysis tools based on its compiler
> infrastructure, using Apache 2.0 licensing:
>=20
> https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn


Amazing how traditional closed source vendors are becoming the heros of ope=
n source while the open source vendors are busy trying to use old world fai=
led closed source lock in techniques like shareware...

I'm busy writing gnoga_doc (and the background library for the coming Gnoga=
 IDE it is using) reinventing the wheel (again) because of open source lice=
nse abuses... It would have been better for me to use ASIS, but since ASIS =
versions and compiler versions need to match and are not distributed as one=
 package to the FSF everyone loses, again.

The entire goal of open source was to share knowledge, grow from each other=
 and make sure your tools of the trade are not stolen away by some corporat=
e interests, etc. I can't say that the idea has failed but I can't say ther=
e is complete success either.

David Botton