From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6deb3e1ddefb099 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.68.195.165 with SMTP id if5mr1274005pbc.1.1337729194182; Tue, 22 May 2012 16:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Path: pr3ni30259pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 01:25:12 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <26eba77d68c700b0513a1aaa8cb53fa8@dizum.com> <82zk90e86n.fsf@stephe-leake.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: qcg8/jD7uOtfXy9rRTvQpg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.00 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-05-23T01:25:12+02:00 List-Id: Le Tue, 22 May 2012 14:01:20 +0200, Stephen Leake = a =C3=A9crit: >> The GPL 2 to GPL 3 comment has caught my attention. Given that the FS= F = >> Ada >> runtime libraries come with the GMGPL exception, what issues are rais= ed >> by the GPL 2 to GPL 3 conversion ? > > None; he's spreading FUD. > >> I am assuming I have missed something, but I don't know what. > > The language has changed in detail, because GPL 3 provides a general > mechanism for specifying things like GMGPL. But the meaning is the sam= e; Do I understand correctly if I understand there will be no need for the = = GMGPL specific text anymore, and now just simply the GPL v3 exception wi= ll = do the trick? -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity