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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,58988230753075de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-06 07:36:54 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9kent0$ivo$2@news.btv.ibm.com> <5ee5b646.0108031815.599ecf37@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 10:36:40 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2001 14:36:40 GMT Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!hammer.uoregon.edu!news.bnb-lp.com!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11363 Date: 2001-08-06T14:36:40+00:00 List-Id: In article <5ee5b646.0108031815.599ecf37@posting.google.com>, Robert Dewar says... > >But this issue has been hotted up recently by Microsoft and Wind River >who have strongly favored the BSD license over the GPL, partly >because they want to use Free Software developed by others in their >own proprietary products. That's very interesting considering that, as near as I can tell, Wind River's entire business is built upon a foundation GPL'ed software. The version of Tornado I have uses both gcc and a customized gnu make. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com