Re: Ada & .Net (Rotor)

[Ingo Marks <adv@region-nord.de>]

Ingo Marks wrote:

> Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
>> The biggest problem I see with an Ada .NET is that the .NET licensing
>> was hand-crafted to be anti-GPL, so it effectively prohibits anyone
>> from using Gnat to implement it. That means only a company with an
>> existing proprietary Ada compiler is going to be able to do the job.
> 
> Are you sure? AFAIK you may not produce GPL-clones of .NET-functionality
> but it should be allowed to produce .NET-applications with compilers and
> languages whatever you like.
> 
> GPL states that if you modify GPL sources then you have to publish your
> modifications. But it doesn't force you to publish your source if you, for
> example, write a new Office from scratch and compile it with gcc. Of
> course, you would be forced to publish your Office code if you would take
> a small piece of some GPL code and enhance it to your final Office.
> 
> Ingo

Supplement:

One of the officially supported .NET languages is Component Pascal.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/language/default.asp#component
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/language/universityqueensland.asp
http://www2.fit.qut.edu.au/CompSci/PLAS//ComponentPascal/

The license of Component Pascal is GPL-like. I haven't found any usager 
estrictions by Microsoft yet. Why should MS? Wouldn't they shoot into their 
feet if they prohibit the usage of free development tools to produce .NET 
applications?

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