Re: [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released

["David Botton" <David@Botton.com>]

It would be sad to see ACT start to use a CYGNUS model of business.

I hope for the sake of Ada a decision will be made to keep the model as is
and release products like this in a way that I believe helps promote Ada,
under the GNAT Modified GPL. Perhaps once Ada has replaced C++ as the
language of choice by most we can look to furthering the FSF's agenda
instead of our own, that of Ada.

Just as an example, I would love to make use of the XML/Ada as part of my
Ada projects, but would almost never do so if it was under the GPL or LGPL
since it would encumber my packages that are always released under GMGPL
(tools are of course under the regular GPL).

Please reconsider and _ANY ONE ELSE_ who is looking to release Ada packages
please don't step in to this trend. If you need more explanation as to why a
regular GPL or LGPL will create problems for users of your packages not
themselves releasing code under GPL/LGPL, please e-mail me.

David Botton

----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmanuel Briot" <briot@gnat.com>

> This is not the plan currently.
> We will release soon some GNAT-Modified GPLed versions of the library to
> our customers that want support for XML/Ada and want to use it in their
> proprietary application.
> However, we will probably leave the public versions under the GPL. This
means
> that people can easily use this library for student projects, and for
testing
> the technology.
>
> Note: All these decisions are not fully discussed yet, we are still
> examining them at Ada Core Technologies.
> I also don't speak for the marketing team :-)
>
> Emmanuel