Re: Ada is almost useless in embedded systems

[Laurent.Guerby@enst-bretagne.fr (Laurent Guerby)]

Robert Dewar writes
: Laurent said:
: 
: "  BTW, s-imgbiu.ad[sb] in the GNAT distribution will do the dirty work
: with very little  modification   (if you're not afraid  of   copyright
: issues ;-)."
: 
: Why should you be concerned with copyright issues? Just in case people
: don't know, the GNAT runtime library is issues with the following
: copyright notice:

[modified LGPL deleted, but everyone should have carefully read it ;-]

   Sorry  for the  poor wording.   I've  used a   smiley and  the word
"afraid" because  a lot  of people are   simply "afraid" of everything
that seems   to be related with  GPL  (it will  disallow business, etc
...). Of course this is most of the time  nonsense and lack of careful
reading. 

   Instead of spending  $$$$$$ with lawyers, just send  a  mail to the
author  who will be happy to  make his point  clear,  and if needed to
grant you extra permissions if you put  him in the credit section, and
it costs $0.  Human    relationships (and most of  simple   commercial
agreements) don't need lawyers 100% of the time,  only 0.00001% of the
time (well, you can raise this number for some commercial cases ...).

: There was quite a thread on this some time ago, and the above wording,
: resulted (in part at least) from this thread. 

   I hope I won't restart it. Flame by e-mail ...

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