Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

[Marius Amado-Alves <marius@amado-alves.info>]

>>> It would be much cleaner if they would simply put out a new  
>>> version of
>>> their libs with the headers cleaned up to what they want the license
>>> to be.
>>
>> Isn't that what they did?
>
> Maybe in some places and not in others (GtkAda).

*Certainly* in some places including the academic compiler (which I  
think is the same as the GPL 2006 edition or what it's called).

Missing some spots was probably a bug (like the blank lines instead  
of no lines).

FWIW personally I think that clearly pure GPL makes much more sense  
than GMGPL for any business distributing (open source) libraries, as  
GMGPL simply is not good enough for dual licensing. I'm aware of the  
ickiness of GPL for software developers (it's entirely user-biased as  
noted here before), and so every now and then I call attention to  
progressive licensing (softdevelcoop.org) as an open source  
alternative better balancing the rights of users and developers.