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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
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Date: 2018-04-18T09:45:30-07:00
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On Wednesday, 18 April 2018 13:44:04 UTC+1, Simon Clubley  wrote:

> Oh, and it's not "one sided", it's called giving the Ada community
> a dose of cold reality. You can talk about the advantages of Ada all
> you want but Ada's advantages mean nothing until the Ada compiler
> situation matches the compiler situation for other languages.

Yup.
=20
> Any compiler which imposes the GPL on any software developed using
> it would be absolutely dead on arrival in many environments especially
> when compilers for other languages are available for free which do
> not impose such constraints.

Exactly!
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> GPL based software development is a small subset of all the software
> development out there.
>=20
> Also, as far as I can see (and I am willing to be corrected here if
> I am wrong) it means that you can't even write a library in Ada under
> something other than the GPL if you are going to use the Community
> version. As soon as you compile the library source with the Community
> version, it falls under the GPL and hence any software using your
> library also falls under the GPL.

Exactly right. Also, people who write a library and then open it under pure=
 GPL are basically making sure that work will go to waste as nobody is goin=
g to use that, no company's will use it, unless they can afford to pay for =
the alternative license, if it actually has one.
=20
> In order to create an Ada library with a LGPL or MIT licence
> (for example), you have to fall back to the FSF version which
> does not have that constraint.

Which is also behind on patches from the maintainers, it's even the GPL ver=
sion which is itself behind the Pro version.

Luke.