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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!ALLTEL.NET-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:19:08 -0500 From: "Marc A. Criley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com X-Trace: e18e8432ad436a13cf7e314609 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4796 Date: 2005-09-16T09:19:08-05:00 List-Id: Jeff Creem wrote: > Finally, for anyone that does not like this new distribution approach > (and to a large extent I include myself in this pool), just make believe > that AdaCore has not released a new version and continue to use the one > built into your distribuion or one built from the FSF tree... > > It is hard to see how you are any worse off as a result of this. Agree, but it's the missed opportunity that I think has upset so many. It's a fact that GNAT "owned" the Ada hobbyist and one-man-shop market, a group that has undeniably produced a lot of freely available Ada software over the years. We've long been wishing for a comprehensive, integrated, out-of-the-box upgrade to GNAT, so that we could move on from the rather aged 3.15p. Well, here's that comprehensive, integrated, out-of-the-box upgrade we've all been waiting for...but don't even think of writing commercial software with it, or letting your commercial customers use your software on open (other than full GPL) or closed licensing terms that _you_ would want to specify. Other vendors, such as RR and Aonix, don't limit this, and you can still write GMGPL software using their compilers. -- Marc A. Criley -- McKae Technologies -- www.mckae.com -- DTraq - XPath In Ada - XML EZ Out