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: 103376,2c7b0b777188b7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!134.158.69.22.MISMATCH!in2p3.fr!oleane.net!oleane!hunter.axlog.fr!nobody From: Jean-Pierre Rosen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:39:22 +0200 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: <9070id.mp6.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mailhost.axlog.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: s1.news.oleane.net 1128506658 18069 195.25.228.57 (5 Oct 2005 10:04:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@oleane.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 10:04:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: fr, en In-Reply-To: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5397 Date: 2005-10-05T11:39:22+02:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta a �crit : > [1] Quite to the contrary; the more I hear the "selfish argument", > the more I feel inclined to package GNAT GPL Edition, just to teach > selfish people that if they refuse to give, then they cannot take, > as Georg Bauhaus said so nicely. > Not a formal vote, but... I think that this argument goes *against* the spirit of free software. As far as I can understand, the basis of free software is "you can do anything with this software, *except* deny to others the rights you have received". Anything, including proprietary software. The GPL edition is a big mistake made by AdaCore, both from a marketing and a popularity point of view. If the community clearly refuses this edition (and not having it in Debian is quite a strong indication), maybe AdaCore will revise its policy. Moreover, I find it quite logical for Debian to just use the standard GCC tree. The whole issue is about packaging, not the compiler. I even think that it would be OK to take the GPL edition, replace the offending packages from the version in the GCC tree, and release the whole stuff under GMGPL. But then, someone has to do the packaging... -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Visit Adalog's web site at http://www.adalog.fr