Re: GNAT license rational (was [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released)

["Vincent Marciante" <marciant_remove@li.net>]

"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3AEE0E5C.2ED1@li.net>, Vincent Marciante says...
> >What I'm really wondering is whether or not having
> >the exception in general, infrastructure-type Ada
> >code that is released is at all appropriate.  I
> >thought that knowing the exact rationale for the
> >GNAT would have been helpful.
>
> Well, I think I *could* take a stab at answering this. But, lest I bring
down
> the "wrath of Dewar" upon myself yet again over some minor point, perhaps
it
> would be better if I just pointed you to some old posts that were made 5
years
> ago when this matter was first being discussed.
>
> -------
> This is a 13 message thread, most interestingly containing a suggestion
from RMS
> about using the GPL, with "additional permissions" instead of the LGPL.
>

Thanks for providing these references.

Also, did not realize that the old newsgroup history is available again!

Vinny

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