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From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Wanted: Ada STL. Reward: Ada's Future
Date: 1999/02/06
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In article <79fvk4$npp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> But at the same time the GPL (and even to a lesser extent
> the LGPL) seem to have unfortunate "infectious"
> attributes. Next chance I get I'll look into the Ada
> Community License; hopefully it's better.

Why not use the GNAT modified GPL? It is well understood
at this stage in the Ada community, and is well adapted
to Ada. It allows completely free use in proprietary
software, which is presumably the issue you want to address
here. Alternatively, you could use the BSD license.

As to whether it is unfortunate or not to prevent the use
of straight GPL'ed software in proprietary products, that
depends on your point of view.

The original GNAT project was required to use the GPL,
precisely to ensure that the resulting software could not
be "proprietarized" at any time in the future. This was
DoD's decision, and I think it serves the Ada community
well that GNAT is guaranteed to remain open, and that for
example, not even ACT could make a proprietary version of
GNAT (of course we don't want to do this anyway, but still
it is good for the Ada community to have a guarantee of
this continued openness, without depending on the good
will of ACT :-)

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies

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