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: 103376,9a5f3bd162009c01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> <43342d07$0$16484$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <43348ced$0$26199$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <877jd6u21j.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: <877jd6u21j.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:10:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.13.56 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1127571015 209.165.13.56 (Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:10:15 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 07:10:15 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5099 Date: 2005-09-24T14:10:15+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: No.Mcondic.Spam@Del.Mindspring.Com (Remove the "No.", ".Spam" and "Del." for the real address.) "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried." -- G. K. Chesterton ======================================================================