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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 16:56:47 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:

> > There are a host[1] of licenses compatible with the GPL.
> > ...
> > [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicense=
s
>=20
> Well, not so fast.  Clubley's =E2=80=9Cfall under=E2=80=9D is correct.  A=
lthough Wright is narrowly correct, the narrowness of the precise correctne=
ss of =E2=80=9Ccompatible with=E2=80=9D is highly misleading.

Compatible licenses aren't the issue here. Ada is already a minority langua=
ge, it's going nowhere until people stop putting libs under GPL, because pe=
ople won't or can't use them for anything closed source - there are still s=
ome industries where software is closed source.