From: David Botton <david@botton.com>
Subject: Re: New to Ada, why these warning messages?
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 11:05:16 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2016-01-03T11:05:16-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ab6356a-9f05-462a-8c16-708397883ef2@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1451845213.2771.14.camel@obry.net>
> Call it virus if you like. I see it as the best way to keep the ball
> rolling.
Not for runtimes which is what we are discussing. On runtimes it removes freedoms and destroys innovation. The FSF compilers from the GPL people don't use stright GPL for a reason. It has been extremely harmful and destructive to the Ada community, the Eiffel community and others where the GPL was used as license virus to prevent compiler use and community innovation.
> Without the GPL we certainly won't have so many nice piece of
> software around...
If GCC had been distributed with a GPL runtime then we would have absolutely nothing now.
> Everybody will try to redo whatever seems cool to
> make money, and won't have the ressource to make something decent. Look
> at GNOME, KDE, Inkscape... sorry I won't list the many thousands of
> softwares that make my work possible.
And when a company abuses the GPL on runtimes to restrict freedoms they are the opposite of open source proponents.
Almost all my code for the last 12 years has been released under GPL or with exceptions. I think you are barking up the wrong tree trying to convince me of benefits of GPL on non-runtime projects.
> To me it is not a virus it was and is a chance for humanity.
No, it is a virus on runtimes. It is intended to prevent innovation, prevent use of the compiler by others, it is everything most of the open source movement has fought to make possible.
It is a dirty virus on runtimes meant to harm.
David Botton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-03 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-01 2:19 New to Ada, why these warning messages? Dale Dellutri
2016-01-01 2:47 ` David Botton
2016-01-01 5:54 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-01 21:18 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-01 17:30 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-01-01 20:20 ` Dale Dellutri
2016-01-01 21:24 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-01 21:54 ` Dale Dellutri
2016-01-02 12:45 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-02 14:21 ` Britt
2016-01-02 15:29 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-03 7:11 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-01-03 9:32 ` Simon Wright
2016-01-03 9:59 ` Simon Clubley
2016-01-03 14:23 ` David Botton
2016-01-03 15:48 ` J-P. Rosen
2016-01-03 18:03 ` David Botton
2016-01-03 18:20 ` Pascal Obry
2016-01-03 19:05 ` David Botton [this message]
2016-01-01 23:50 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-02 21:05 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-02 22:53 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-01-02 17:59 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-01-02 18:37 ` Paul Rubin
2016-01-02 21:03 ` Bob Duff
2016-01-02 21:08 ` Bob Duff
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