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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c7b0b777188b7c4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" Organization: jrcarter at acm dot org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades References: <1128499462.850353.146890@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <87ek6zom2h.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: <87ek6zom2h.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 18:20:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.3.218.218 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1128622807 67.3.218.218 (Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:20:07 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 11:20:07 PDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5456 Date: 2005-10-06T18:20:07+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > I'm sorry if I offended you in any way. Of course you are not > selfish; you are being super-unselfish, by allowing people to take > your work while at the same time keeping their own work secret. The > "selfish argument" was raised here by people who would like to do that > with the GNAT library. But if I create an application using my GMGPL code and the GNAT GPL compiler, my program (and all of its source code) must become GPL, and I am not allowed to be "super-unselfish". Thus, I find the GNAT GPL compiler unsuitable for my purposes. I consider it inappropriate for any compiler to take such choices from me, and for any OS to supply such a compiler. -- Jeff Carter "I soiled my armor, I was so scared." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 71