Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...

[M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de> writes:

> Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> 
> > But we don't complain that makers of Free Software disallow use of
> > their GPL tools and components for closed source software. If you
> > need that, pay them, if you can.
> 
> George, 
> 
> I know I'm not consistent, but I'd like to point you to
> http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/3e26dfa741e64e5f/bbff925a8e74f167?lnk=st&q=Ada+Whalen+Dewar&rnum=4&hl=de#bbff925a8e74f167

Wrong post. The right one is:

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_thread/thread/24ac770ebf312b7a/e4fdf88d2a6768a6?lnk=st&q=Whalen+Dewar+happen&rnum=1&hl=de#e4fdf88d2a6768a6

I just happen to see that the "wrong quote" actually answers a posting
by you. Since that didn't convince you then (you didn't answer on
Steve Whalens comments), it probably won't convince you now. But
please stop to imply that other people try to rip off ACT :-). If
there is not enough community to get a commercially
also-for-closed-source Ada environment (that means appropriate libs
also) going, all the people that would want that will go elsewhere and
there will be peace in c.l.a. If the community actually can get such
an environment going and maintain it, the better.

But now way are Gnat nor the libraries a one sided gracious gift of
ACT to the unwashed masses. I acknowledge their contribution (I also
acknowledge that the got paid for it).

Another relevant quote is 

http://groups.google.de/group/comp.lang.ada/browse_frm/thread/2c7b0b777188b7c4/5a960e6166cc5f3a?tvc=1&q=Ada+Whalen+Dewar&hl=de#5a960e6166cc5f3a

  "if you weren't reading comp.lang.ada and following GNAT back then,
   please use Google groups and go back and read what the ACT/AdaCore
   people were saying back then.  They took great pains to explain
   that exactly what they are now doing would be "bad"."

I don't have the intention to revive that thread (please not). But
what you accuse me of ("complain") seems to have been a pretty common
occurrence some months ago and as it seems not all out of greed to get
everything for cheap, but out of a rather different understanding of
the implied obligations ACT had to the community.

Regards -- Markus