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From: Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Corrected version Re: pragma License ?
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:33:22 +0200
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anon@anon.org (anon) writes:

> All Languages have features that no one uses!  I think the primary group of 
> programmers that use the Adacore or GNU Ada compiler kind of skip this 
> pragma.

If Adacore itself doesn't use it, that's understandable. I won't use
it too. Thought it was a handy feature.

> Note: I believe that Linux will create it own license once the GPL version
> 3 final is out.  Linus does not like the GPL version 3 drafts he has seen 
> so far.

I thought that's impossible because of the large number of programmers
who hold the copy{right|left} on parts of Linux and who put their code
under GPL2. Linus would have to get permission from all of them to
change the license or replace their code.

-- 
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. 
He simply follows the eleventh commandment.
-- R.A. Heinlein