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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:5644:: with SMTP id o65-v6mr5596397itb.48.1525054169724; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:09:29 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5c8d:: with SMTP id a13-v6mr875944oti.0.1525054169445; Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:09:29 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!f63-v6no1920558itc.0!news-out.google.com!b185-v6ni3098itb.0!nntp.google.com!k65-v6no1918677ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 19:09:29 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=1.144.110.95; posting-account=rfeywQoAAAC0TKn5ZjdVW0ytcQM1oMSv NNTP-Posting-Host: 1.144.110.95 References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <92f4a08e-7eef-437d-b27c-81eb9238db56@googlegroups.com> Subject: Commercial GPL From: David Trudgett Injection-Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2018 02:09:29 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Received-Bytes: 3508 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2016416527 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:51814 Date: 2018-04-29T19:09:29-07:00 List-Id: Il giorno mercoled=C3=AC 18 aprile 2018 22:44:04 UTC+10, Simon Clubley ha s= critto: > On 2018-04-17, Mehdi Saada <00120260a@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have trouble believing that Adacore (free) forbid completely selling > > softwares in other licenses as GPL or the likes of. I have no technical > > knowledge of these things, but I feel like your points of view are a > > bit... one sided ? >=20 > Adacore force the GPL on any software developed using the Community > version. See >=20 > https://www.adacore.com/gnatpro/comparison >=20 > where it says (under Community) "For open source GPL software". >=20 > 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. >=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. >=20 > 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. >=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. >=20 > Simon. >=20 > --=20 > Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP > Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world Note that you can build as much commercial software as you like with the GP= L compiler, as long as you don't want to distribute (i.e., it's for interna= l use). If you do want to distribute, you can still use the GPL compiler, a= nd distribute the source code with the binary. Simple. Cheers, David