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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,807fd6443e98152f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.germany.com!news.belwue.de!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.in2p3.fr!in2p3.fr!proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp2-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Sender: sam@willow.rfc1149.net From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Poll: Qt4Ada as alternative to GtkAda References: <44c9476d$0$7472$626a54ce@news.free.fr> Date: 28 Jul 2006 17:56:27 +0200 Message-ID: <87mzatyb84.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jul 2006 18:00:40 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1154102440 nnrp2-1.free.fr 30128 88.191.14.223:54370 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5993 Date: 2006-07-28T18:00:40+02:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Jeffrey" == Jeffrey Creem writes: Jeffrey> Of course, the FSF could make a change like that. While Jeffrey> AdaCore's actions are (hopefully) driven by profit motives, Jeffrey> FSF's motives are simply trying to ensure an end state where Jeffrey> software is "Free" (in a GPL sense). So they could certainly Jeffrey> change future releases to pure GPL for their own reasons Exactly. But I would not understand if they did that for the GNAT library and not for the C++ STL. Why restrict the use of the GNU Ada compiler when the use of the GNU C++ compiler isn't? Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/