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 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:39:42 -0600 From: Dennis Lee Bieber Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL is not shareware Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 19:39:50 -0500 Organization: IISS Elusive Unicorn Message-ID: References: <87bnmetex4.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4ae7f0d5-d681-4be9-95bc-b5e789b3ad40@googlegroups.com> <87tx06rve6.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <87lhlirpk0.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <79f3eff7-2b45-40ae-af94-fa9a17426d82@googlegroups.com> <87bnmd8mg2.fsf@ixod.org> <19cf9bc2-f8b9-4735-b427-7b070dda59da@googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 X-No-Archive: YES MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.249.27.31 X-Trace: sv3-nRiB5w3u4fK+4qYy/lbQCaCVdvEeSs1har+BtyyLhO6dLjxPX9zEQjyNdcCBS/xxK9ZkBL39oEQpGzF!9Hu8q0FJSw+C0yrKZsGPBVqsGatVXS04wA7dIA3t57Q3F9dqIGuv+MLNHAPj/0ysuXsfhi31cP4t!lHgDDSMcHBmLoMNc+ShEbIWP5Q== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 2400 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:24388 Date: 2015-01-05T19:39:50-05:00 List-Id: On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 05:26:49 -0800 (PST), David Botton declaimed the following: > >As a community interested in Ada advocacy there is no idea here about "stopping" AdaCore or even "changing" their minds, there is though the need to fill in the massive gap left between the shareware/demo/trial/viral GPL edition and the commercial PRO support package. A need for a "PRO Community" edition = the FSF distros. I'd be happy with a low-cost non-support non-encumbered ACT release... Say $100-200 to get a version without the GPL passthrough to built applications, but with no rights to pester them about perceived bugs. Mainly because my main environment is M$ Windows -- and having to build the toolchain first is a pain over having a pre-built native installer. -- Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN wlfraed@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/