From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:45:17 +0200
Date: 2005-09-18T18:45:17+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slw29vfm.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m33bo887hl.fsf@rr.trudgett
* David Trudgett:
> It occurs to me that removing this exception would be tantamount to
> provoking a code fork.
For a fork to happen, you need two parties. I haven't heard of anyone
outside AdaCore actively working on fixing bugs and implementing new
features in GNAT in a systematic manner (at least its compiler part).
Backporting and forward-porting changes is a laudable activity, and I
admire those who spend their spare time on it. But actually improving
the compiler in a systematic way requires a new level of development
activity. And you also have to keep in mind that AdaCore will happily
take all the code you write and sell it to their customers, without
compensating you. Not exactly motivating.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-13 13:50 GNAT GPL 2005 Edition Santiago Urueña
2005-09-13 14:09 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2005-09-13 15:43 ` Britt Snodgrass
2005-09-14 4:31 ` jim hopper
2005-09-14 9:36 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-09-13 17:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-13 23:33 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-14 0:00 ` Björn Persson
2005-09-14 0:47 ` Jeff Creem
2005-09-14 8:22 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-14 6:54 ` David Trudgett
2005-09-18 16:45 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2005-09-14 16:03 ` Jeffrey Carter
2005-09-14 17:03 ` Martin Dowie
2005-09-14 17:16 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-09-14 19:09 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-09-15 10:03 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2005-09-15 13:11 ` Marc A. Criley
2005-09-16 5:34 ` Simon Wright
2005-09-15 11:55 ` Dr. Adrian Wrigley
2005-09-16 12:50 ` Nasser Abbasi
2005-09-16 13:23 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
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