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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news.tu-darmstadt.de!tsicnews.teliasonera.com!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:27:09 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1126902429 217.209.116.179 (Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:27:09 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:27:09 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4809 Date: 2005-09-16T20:27:09+00:00 List-Id: Jeff Creem wrote: > Finally, for anyone that does not like this new distribution approach > (and to a large extent I include myself in this pool), just make believe > that AdaCore has not released a new version and continue to use the one > built into your distribuion or one built from the FSF tree... The problem is that I'm not sure whether they would be allowed to change the license in the GCC tree too, and if so, whether they are going to do so, or else, whether they will stop contributing to the GCC tree, and in both cases, whether there will be enough people who care enough and are skilled enough to make a fork and successfully maintain it. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu