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,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bcklog1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 02:01:06 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:01:05 +0100 From: Martin Dowie User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO? References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.155.38.142 X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-IzwI/n04WYJ0sXZJFvtb684vOYQ5ZLskvbyGvgmCNmF6ZEulkB/QG1lt9eGcrywDnycgAlSWU4gayb4!F+yQPKt21oPeITA/9NhnwIyd5JIV4+oIZPn/m6OU0dQX3XKK4L3LDT+FBjAi6dr5EcPFwChx4mw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5325 Date: 2006-06-30T08:01:05+01:00 List-Id: Simon Wright wrote: > M E Leypold writes: > >> Well -- if you, as JC seemed to imply -- are working for a company >> that is providing programming service to large aerospace companies >> and of those some in turn seem to have a "no GPL" policy in place >> now, as other posts seem to imply: You wouldn't want to explain to >> them the difference between Gnat GPL and Gnat Pro. You'd like to >> avoid the "GPL stink", someone put it here > > I really don't see this as a problem; I work for a large aerospace > company, we are so far as I know quite happy with the service we get > from our vendors and the licence terms are OK too. I hope we aren't so > blinkered as to go off on a rant against anything with G, P and L in > its licence. > > OK, every so often we contemplate programming our systems in VB or > Java, wiser heads prevail, but C++ is a real challenge; and not > because it's GPL-free, but because it's easier to get people with it > on their CVs. Is it easy to get really /good/ C++ people though... Cheers -- Martin