RE: comp.lang.ada Digest, Vol 28, Issue 50

RE: comp.lang.ada Digest, Vol 28, Issue 50

[Carroll, Andrew]

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>From: "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
>Subject: Re: Ada2005 Compiler
>
>Carroll, Andrew wrote :
>> How did all the messages about licensing issues come up on this list
>> anyway?
>
>Because AdaCore changed the licensing of libraries to the pure GPL.
>
>> Is it only an issue of the libraries involved?  Is there a project
>> underway to make an open source compiler specifically for Ada2005
that
>> does not have ties to anyone and has the correct "open source"
>> licensing?
>
>What is "correct" open source licensing? Libraries licensed under the
>GPL are "open source" all right, as per the OSI definition. 

Well, you seem to know more about it than I do so maybe you can tell me
what the "correct" open source licensing is/should be.  It sounds to me,
from the posts about the licensing, is that the licensing changed and
the new licensing does not meet many people's needs.  Hence the question
about developing a compiler that does meet the people's needs;
specifically the open source community.

>
[snip]
>See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing
>
>-- 
>Ludovic Brenta.
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Andrew

Licensing, again

[Ludovic Brenta]

Carroll, Andrew wrote :
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> >What is "correct" open source licensing? Libraries licensed under the
> >GPL are "open source" all right, as per the OSI definition.
>
> Well, you seem to know more about it than I do so maybe you can tell me
> what the "correct" open source licensing is/should be.  It sounds to me,
> from the posts about the licensing, is that the licensing changed and
> the new licensing does not meet many people's needs.  Hence the question
> about developing a compiler that does meet the people's needs;
> specifically the open source community.
>
> >
> [snip]
> > See http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Installing

Read that page. I really mean it. Have you read that page? Really?

Also, see
http://www.ada-france.org/debian/debian-ada-policy.html#How-the-Ada-compiler-for-Etch-was-chosen

again, I really mean it when I say "see this page".

The recent discussion did not apply to libgnat but to the other
libraries from AdaCore: AWS, ASIS-for-GNAT, GLADE, XML/Ada, and above
all, GtkAda. The arguments, for or against, are the same.

You also seem to have an implicit definition of "people's needs" which
I think you should explain better.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.