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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety !
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On 2014-06-10, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> wrote:
> Le 10/06/2014 16:43, Brad Moore a écrit :
>> 
>> Is there a list of such libraries that would be of interest? If that is
>> what is stopping people from using Ada, then I would think it wouldn't
>> be too hard to find people willing to work on creating non-GPL versions
>> of such libraries, or to create bindings to other libraries that already
>> exist. At the very least it would be a lot easier than inventing a new
>> language, and then creating versions of those libraries in that new
>> language.
>
> I'd like some examples too. AFAIK, the standard library that comes with
> FSF-Gnat has the famous copyright exception (i.e. they are GMGPL, not
> pure GPL). And other libraries have the copyright chosen by their
> author, as for any language...
>

The one ACT supplied library I used to use was GtkAda which had a GMGPL
style licence until around GTK 2.4 (IIRC) when it was suddenly changed
to pure GPL overnight by ACT.

I made a point _never_ to use anything under the direct control of ACT
after that experience. (For gcc, I use the FSF gcc branch only).

Simon.

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