Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications

["Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

On 19 juin, 17:36, sjw <simon.j.wri...@mac.com> wrote:

> As I understand it, you are prepared to provide a source code
> distribution under a license which does not permit redistribution.
> That's not what most people would call 'open source'
Yes, but what is the most important thing with an application ? I
guess as an exemple, people using software to help genealogy research
do not bother the software is open source or not. He/she first see
what it can do, if it is nice to use, if it is not too much expensive
(yes I know a lot of people expect totally free, but a lot of useful
application are not free of charge), then if the guy/girl know a bit
about coding, he/she perhaps may be interested in setting up some
customisation (but have to not forgot that forking and then keeping
synchronized with update is not an easy thing) he/she want to have
access to source. But if he/she think the application is nice, he/she
can understand that funding help the autor to be ok and allow him/her
to go further in the project.

I have worked on a open source project about one year ago,
modifications has been publically released by owner of the project
(although some others were left private to avoid forking on the main
and sole official repository). I would have work the same way on it if
I would not have been allowed to redistribute modifications, just
beceause I was needing the modifications I've made to this
application.

Open source is nice (even mandatory when dealing with some kind of
users), but GPL is sometime good, sometime not

> So, write in Ada and build your program for distribution using [what-ever-suite-needs]
> Job done.

Fortunately, Ada is a hightly standardized (beside of beeing well
design) language, so it really help to beleave in this kind of view.

So yes, “write in Ada” as your sentence start with, is perhaps the
main statement here.

If a little off-topic is allowed : do am I dreaming ? Is there really
an Ada compiler personal licence for USD 150 at RRSoftware ? 8|
http://www.rrsoftware.com/html/companyinf/prices.htm (huuu.... or
perhaps there is something I did not understood) But I do not find
about Ada 2005 in the listing