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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 !
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 21:04:36 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2014-06-10, Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net> wrote:
> Le mardi 10 juin 2014 à 20:28 +0000, Simon Clubley a écrit : 
>> 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.
>
> Well you can still create commercial applications using pure GPL. Isn't
> that an option for you?
>

The real problem is that when a company pulls a stunt like that you can
never be sure what other things might be waiting around the corner so
you can become reluctant to use any freely available packages that
company might have direct control over.

IIRC, there was quite a bit of anger in comp.lang.ada at the time this
sudden GtkAda licence change was discovered.

Simon.

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