Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> 
> 
> I'd like to add that the FSF (gcc.gnu.org) does *not* distribute
> binaries of GCC.  See http://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html
> 
> If you want to use GCC, you must either compile it yourself or obtain
> if from someone else who compiled it for you.
> 
The harder it is to use Ada, the less it will get used. ACT, et alia, 
don't have to like that fact - they just have to live with that fact. I 
won't say they have no right to do whatever they want with the licensing 
of their IP - its their right. I just think that if it is at all 
difficult to get a working Ada05 compiler for most of the "casual" users 
(those who don't need some kind of industrial strength support) that Ada 
  (at least Ada05) starts becoming a less attractive alternative - and 
do be aware that there are very few people who HAVE TO use Ada.

There are enough pressures today against Ada. Lack of an easily 
accessible, freely available, 
unencumbered-with-restrictive-licenses-on-YOUR-code compiler is just one 
more pressure to switch to something else.

MDC

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