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From: "Pat Rogers" <progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com>
Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL.  Reward: Ada's Future
Date: 1999/02/04
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Larry Kilgallen wrote in message <1999Feb4.141530.1@eisner>...
>In article <79cc3q$mms$1@remarQ.com>, "Pat Rogers"
<progers@NOclasswideSPAM.com> writes:
>
>> Why not have the Ada community "standardize" on the the free Ada 95
>> Booch Components?  Specifically, expanding them after the core from
>> the C++ version is completed?
>
>Because the variety of meanings of the word "free" covers some things
>that cannot be included in commercial software.  At some point it is
>easier to reinvent the wheel than to spend life pretending to be a
>lawyer.


Do you have specific issues with the ACL, or is this a general
"anything that smacks of a legal issue is sufficient to prevent use"?
I assume the latter...