From: "Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:46:03 +0100
Date: 2011-01-20T19:46:03+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.vpmee1akule2fv@garhos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ih9sfn$6b8$1@news.eternal-september.org
Le Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:47:34 +0100, J-P. Rosen <rosen@adalog.fr> a écrit:
> Le 20/01/2011 15:50, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
>> GNAT Pro ? What a joke, where did they see GNAT Pro was ever promoted as
>> libre ?
> GNAT Pro is distributed under the GMGPL license. Nothing would prevent
> anybody to redistribute GNAT Pro. But no Gnat PRO user is interested in
> doing that. (TBH, there is some FUD from AdaCore that discourage people
> from doing it).
But there is a libre.adacore.com, so this drove me to suppose some kind of
distinction is made. May be you know the exact licensing terms, and
clients know these, for sure, and this may be part of this license, OK.
However as a “public” user, I've never seen any claim from AdaCore about
GNAT Pro being libre. That was the reason why I reacted this way.
If really clients are allowed to re-distribute, this is indeed surprising,
I could never believe this could be really possible: users/clients allowed
to redistribute and none doing so. May be they feel that's better to not
brake AdaCore business (I am talking about earnings) so that they are
assured of a regular and good job done at maintaining the compiler ? (I
would not expect it from the “crowd”, but they must be some kind of
special users I believe).
That said, do you think they could be some provision for the suggestion
made, that is, some funding from GNAT GPL users to fix some bugs in the
compiler (I would be very happy to see the one about synchronized
interface fixed). Some room for a special contract ? Obviously, AdaCore
could not receive all individual request from each; but we could make some
collectively after some collegiate decisions.
P.S. This must not be easy for AdaCore too I believe (I see no way to
easily handle commercial + GPL). May be these FUD are the only way they
could figure to protect it… just hope these FUD are not too much
disturbing/nasty for their clients (ouch).
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2011-01-20 10:58 Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources deadlyhead
2011-01-20 13:37 ` Ludovic Brenta
2011-01-20 14:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-20 17:47 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-20 18:46 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) [this message]
2011-01-20 21:03 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-20 21:56 ` deadlyhead
2011-01-21 0:08 ` qunying
2011-01-21 4:43 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-22 5:09 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-01-22 6:15 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-25 1:29 ` Randy Brukardt
2011-02-06 19:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 7:19 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 9:29 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2011-01-21 9:57 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 13:51 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 15:26 ` Fritz Wuehler
2011-01-21 19:50 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-02-05 12:40 ` Marco
2011-01-22 15:29 ` Lucretia
2011-01-21 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2011-01-21 4:33 ` Stephen Leake
2011-01-21 5:00 ` Shark8
2011-01-21 6:26 ` Thomas Løcke
2011-01-21 10:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 19:11 ` Oliver Kellogg
2011-01-21 19:42 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-21 20:41 ` Simon Wright
2011-01-21 22:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2011-01-22 15:28 ` Lucretia
2011-02-03 9:40 ` deadlyhead
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