Re: Ada Libraries

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

O.K. Just to be fair - I did say "GPL-ish". :-) I'd hate to start that whole
GPL/LGPL/GMGPL thing all over again. I was only observing that if someone
were to develop something that hoped to make its way into Ada as a library,
there needs to be some means that makes it very easy for a compiler vendor
just to bundle it up and ship it. (That and it has to be good quality,
general purpose & portable. We could go on for days about all the possible
requirements. For now I'll stick to the licensing issue.)

MDC
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> wrote in message
news:MaWL6.2162$A07.433578@homer.alpha.net...
> Marin David Condic wrote in message <9domjk$h4t$1@nh.pace.co.uk>...
> >things and put under some sort of GPL-ish license so that compiler
> vendors
> >would be free to distribute it with their product?
>
>
> As far as the license goes, the question is more whether the license
> would allow vendors to distribute it with their compilers. Indeed, I
> would expect a GPL license to PREVENT most of the vendors from
> distributing it. (GPL poisoning, anyone?)
>