Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 22 May 2012 18:43:22 +0200, Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> a  
écrit:
> It gives the FSF guys indigestion knowing there is any
> library LGPLd.

At least, this one is not FUD (lol). I myself, have read some text from  
the FSF which left me with a similar feeling. Anyway, there is still no  
real‑life issue with the GPL and GNAT. If there are issues, these are  
elsewhere, like with suspected (erroneous or not) intents, political  
opinions and others. I don't believe the runtime libraries will ever  
become pure GPL, because as much they would like, if they could, make  
every thing pure GPL, *they are as much aware they can't* and aware doing  
so will be counterproductive for the FSF lobbying, as making runtime  
libraries pure GPL, would prevent many people from using it at all. They  
know it, and although they don't like it, they have to do with it.  
Conclusion: it's unlikely there will ever be an concrete issue with it, at  
least not before a rather far future.

May be you are less spreading FUD (which is always too bad to say to  
someone) than doing unprobable extrapolations, for some reasons you are  
the only one to know.

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