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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.8.169 with SMTP id h41mr28787114ioi.31.1451847916746; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:05:16 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.40.227 with SMTP id a3mr580413obl.14.1451847916725; Sun, 03 Jan 2016 11:05:16 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!mv3no25047603igc.0!news-out.google.com!l1ni2275igd.0!nntp.google.com!mv3no17542869igc.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:05:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1451845213.2771.14.camel@obry.net> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=50.138.108.113; posting-account=yiWntAoAAAC1KqC_shmxJYv07B9l6LNU NNTP-Posting-Host: 50.138.108.113 References: <877fjtyowc.fsf@theworld.com> <2085a2de-2112-4574-bef2-bdb62411f9b5@googlegroups.com> <1451845213.2771.14.camel@obry.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <9ab6356a-9f05-462a-8c16-708397883ef2@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: New to Ada, why these warning messages? From: David Botton Injection-Date: Sun, 03 Jan 2016 19:05:16 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:28997 Date: 2016-01-03T11:05:16-08:00 List-Id: > Call it virus if you like. I see it as the best way to keep the ball > rolling. Not for runtimes which is what we are discussing. On runtimes it removes fr= eedoms and destroys innovation. The FSF compilers from the GPL people don't= use stright GPL for a reason. It has been extremely harmful and destructiv= e to the Ada community, the Eiffel community and others where the GPL was u= sed as license virus to prevent compiler use and community innovation. > Without the GPL we certainly won't have so many nice piece of > software around... If GCC had been distributed with a GPL runtime then we would have absolutel= y nothing now. > Everybody will try to redo whatever seems cool to > make money, and won't have the ressource to make something decent. Look > at GNOME, KDE, Inkscape... sorry I won't list the many thousands of > softwares that make my work possible. And when a company abuses the GPL on runtimes to restrict freedoms they are= the opposite of open source proponents. Almost all my code for the last 12 years has been released under GPL or wit= h exceptions. I think you are barking up the wrong tree trying to convince = me of benefits of GPL on non-runtime projects. =20 > To me it is not a virus it was and is a chance for humanity. No, it is a virus on runtimes. It is intended to prevent innovation, preven= t use of the compiler by others, it is everything most of the open source m= ovement has fought to make possible. It is a dirty virus on runtimes meant to harm. David Botton