Re: Ada-WinRT bindings - Alpha release

[Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>]

"Dan'l Miller" <optikos@verizon.net> writes:

> Conversely, Mono could conceivably now or in the future trivially
> utilize some portion of GCC somewhere in its build process of
> something—anything on which Ada-WinRT is downstream, even indirectly.
> This could trigger the “any work based on GCC” clause in the Eligible
> Compilation Process, which would then revert Ada-WinRT's
> GPL-with-Runtime-Exception license to full-fledged GPL.  This
> sneak-in-the-backdoor sequence of events years from now is
> specifically the kind of viralness that is feared from the GPL,
> including the GPL-with-Runtime-Exceptions.

You may be right, IANAL, are you? What exactly does "any work based on
GCC" mean, anyway?

>                                LGPL forces anyone modifying Alex's
> Ada-WinRT work to contribute those modifications publicly so that they
> get back to Alex.

I don't see that? LGPL looks so complicated that you would need a lawyer
to be sure.

>                                                              Alex is
> completely free and unfettered to choose whichever license he thinks
> best, considering all these ramifications.

Well, why not MIT then?

I don't think we are going to agree on any of this. Shutting up.