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Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?
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> 
> 3) The biggest reason this murky license is likely to eventually
> result in AdaCore being banned is that many large companies are
> already leary of anything marked GPL in any fashion.
> (e.g. http://tinyurl.com/jk9xy Note that this tiny URL is pointing to
> a PDF at a lockheed martin server)..I'll save you the trouble of
> looking. The summary is that they ban their suppliers from providing
> anything GPL to them. Yes there are ways out/around it..But it is not
> uncommon for this to be read as a defacto ban by some.
> 
> In any case, all of the assurances from the person who stands to make
> money on the SW won't matter if the FUD level (and truth level) gets
> high enough. There is an extremely good chance that another vendor's

Apart from the fact that you can assure what you want: There is a
point from where the insureance of the person supplying the software
won't cover what they perceive as risk any more.

> compiler will be picked due to the GPL "stink" on AdaCore and these
> misleading license terms on the CVS archive do nothing to help that
> cause.

Full ACK.

Regards -- Markus