Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry

[Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>]

"Ed Falis" <falis@verizon.net> writes:

> So make your own licensing less restrictive and you won't have that
> problem, will you?

There are two answers to this question: 

a) this is not my decision. I actually like the GPL. But since this is
c.l.a and not soc.free.software I'd say that LGPL would work better to
support the use of Ada.

b) what if I would make my licensing as unrestrictive as the BSD
license?

I really don't want to bash certain compiler vendors. Everyone can do
what he likes: the compiler vendor can choose the licensing as he
likes, the compiler user can buy the licensing scheme he likes and
there's always the possibility to use another language like C[++|#],
Java, what else. 

Since there are threads like this on a regular basis (the last one was
"What's wrong with Ada?" I wonder if there might be a correlation
between the popularity of a language and the tools + licenses it
has. 

I note that the answer to my initial question ("Wanted:...") was not
the name or website of a tools vendor but to change my
requirements. If I would s/Ada/Java/ or s/Ada/C/ in that question, I
bet I'd get a few URLs as a reply.

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He simply follows the eleventh commandment.
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