From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 08:11:52 +0100
Date: 2011-01-21T08:11:52+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ihbbjp$b0i$1@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.vpmee1akule2fv@garhos>
Le 20/01/2011 19:46, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
> If really clients are allowed to re-distribute, this is indeed
> surprising, I could never believe this could be really possible:
> users/clients allowed to redistribute and none doing so. May be they
> feel that's better to not brake AdaCore business (I am talking about
> earnings) so that they are assured of a regular and good job done at
> maintaining the compiler ? (I would not expect it from the “crowd”, but
> they must be some kind of special users I believe).
Paying customers are typically big companies, and they are busy enough
to not care. Anyway, they are not used to distributing /anything/
> That said, do you think they could be some provision for the suggestion
> made, that is, some funding from GNAT GPL users to fix some bugs in the
> compiler (I would be very happy to see the one about synchronized
> interface fixed). Some room for a special contract ? Obviously, AdaCore
> could not receive all individual request from each; but we could make
> some collectively after some collegiate decisions.
People have been telling this to AdaCore for years; they said they were
not intersted.
> P.S. This must not be easy for AdaCore too I believe (I see no way to
> easily handle commercial + GPL). May be these FUD are the only way they
> could figure to protect it… just hope these FUD are not too much
> disturbing/nasty for their clients (ouch).
>
It's in part sin by omission. The license explains that, since Gnat is
free software, the client is allowed to install the compiler on as many
machines as they want /within the company/ (they get support only for
the number of seats they paid for, though). The license forgets to tell
that the same is true /outside the company/ ...
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Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-20 10:58 Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources deadlyhead
2011-01-20 13:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-20 14:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 17:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 18:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 21:03 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-20 21:56 ` deadlyhead
2011-01-21 0:08 ` qunying
2011-01-21 4:43 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-22 5:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-22 6:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-25 1:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-06 19:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 7:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 9:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-21 9:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 13:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 15:26 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-01-21 19:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-05 12:40 ` Marco
2011-01-22 15:29 ` Lucretia
2011-01-21 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2011-01-21 4:33 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-21 5:00 ` Shark8
2011-01-21 6:26 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-21 10:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:11 ` Oliver Kellogg
2011-01-21 19:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 20:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-21 22:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-22 15:28 ` Lucretia
2011-02-03 9:40 ` deadlyhead
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