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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-10 15:33:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Contributing patches to GPL Ada projects (was: Is Ada dead?) Date: 10 Jul 2001 15:33:24 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0107101433.fedfed8@posting.google.com> References: <67F27.14089$Kf3.151364@www.newsranger.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.14 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 994804404 14465 127.0.0.1 (10 Jul 2001 22:33:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-support@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Jul 2001 22:33:24 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9747 Date: 2001-07-10T22:33:24+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote in message news:<67F27.14089$Kf3.151364@www.newsranger.com>... > As for the ACT XML project, I wouldn't expect you to see many > contributions from outside of your customer community, simply because > the licensing terms are not usable for serious outside users. Well T.E.D. seems to identify "serious outside users" with people like himself who use the public version of GNAT for developing proprietary code. This is a small community in any case, and not one that is likely to contribute much to Free Software projects (e.g. I can't remember T.E.D. contributing any code to GNAT). However, a much larger, much more active, and much more interesting set of serious outside users (from the point of view of outside contributions) is people who are building and distribution Free Software components and tools. Such people have been the main outside contributors to GNAT and its associated technologies, and I would expect that to be the case. In addition, our supported customers can and do contribute useful code, and they have a definite incentive to do so, because if their modifications are incorporated into the mainline GNAT sources, then they don't have to keep putting them in themselves. As for the comment that the lack of binaries made by ACT will inhibit such contributions, I doubt it. People in a position to make useful contributions are typically the people who can successfully build from sources, and we would expect that one important contribution in the future, as in the past, is these binary ports and builds (e.g. ports for DOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Amiga, Mac, Nextstep, etc have all come from volunteers in the Free Software Community. Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies