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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,df1a7f1c3c3bc77e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!proxad.net!213.200.89.82.MISMATCH!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!news.addix.net!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An Ada Advice Inquiry Date: Fri, 04 May 2007 22:22:06 +0200 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <463B7BBF.4080603@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p57b62119.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1178310127 26116 87.182.33.25 (4 May 2007 20:22:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 20:22:07 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:15542 Date: 2007-05-04T22:22:06+02:00 List-Id: "Ed Falis" 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. -- No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. He simply follows the eleventh commandment. -- R.A. Heinlein