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Subject: Re: "Open Core" and the Ada Community
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<<I'm still wondering about the "...and the Ada Community" part of the=20
subject, though.>>

His words and what will be our response:

"The software freedom world is more complex than it once was. Ten years ago=
, we advocates could tell people to look for the GPL label and know that th=
e software would automatically be part of a freedom-friendly, software shar=
ing community. Not all GPL'd software is created equal anymore" ... "The ne=
w advice is: judge the freedom of your codebase not only on its license, bu=
t also on the diversity of the community that contributes to it."

So as an Ada community, what are we doing to turn Ada in to a "freedom-frie=
ndly, software sharing community."=20

AdaCore has taken some very small positive steps with the move of some soft=
ware to github. Certainly it will be hard for them to play make pretend and=
 say you have to ignore the headers and the runtime linking exception is vo=
id in this case.

What positive steps can we do to for FSF GNAT? Placing it on footing and ra=
ising awareness I've done with GetAdaNow.com and the mascot, etc.

However we need a real team taking charge of a fork of FSF GNAT and a found=
ation to become "true" stewards of the full freedoms GNAT version.

I am the wrong person to do the fork or would have done it already. My skil=
ls lay in other areas of SE then compilers. Are there others willing to get=
 involved with such a fork?

David Botton