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Subject: Re: Thoughts on AdaCore maintaining GCC-incompatible GNAT sources
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Le Fri, 21 Jan 2011 20:11:17 +0100, Oliver Kellogg  =

<okellogg@users.sourceforge.net> a =C3=A9crit:
> I'll put my +1 on that, too.
> Or, if AdaCore is "not in the cheap compiler business", how about just=

> plain donations in the SourceForge style of "donate to project". I've
> seen that it's possible to donate to FSF - but I'm not sure an FSF
> donation could be redirected specifically to AdaCore stuff.
>
> Oliver (speaking only as a private person, of course)

The matter here would be one like Fritz Wuehler pointed in another reply=
  =

to this thread: licensing. I am not sure every one would enjoy to pay fo=
r  =

a GPLed application they could not really use for their own purpose.  =

Funding the FSF would be paying for something you could not use freely. =
 =

That is far less attractive.

He exactly say =E2=80=9CEven better if GPL is nowhere in the equation.=E2=
=80=9D=E2=80=A6 and I  =

personally insist on that too (I would not buy a GPL licensed applicatio=
n  =

whose license states you are not the owner of things you created with  =

that=E2=80=A6 the runtime and standard library matters here).

-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]