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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a6b:9f0d:: with SMTP id i13-v6mr11341198ioe.28.1531250171140; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:16:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 2002:aca:4787:: with SMTP id u129-v6mr6148528oia.4.1531250170678; Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:16:10 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeder4.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!g2-v6no48325itf.0!news-out.google.com!l67-v6ni15itl.0!nntp.google.com!g2-v6no48323itf.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 12:16:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <02755e71-b74b-4c83-93fb-b7f496b0061b@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=47.185.195.62; posting-account=zwxLlwoAAAChLBU7oraRzNDnqQYkYbpo NNTP-Posting-Host: 47.185.195.62 References: <1c73f159-eae4-4ae7-a348-03964b007197@googlegroups.com> <878t9nemrl.fsf@nightsong.com> <51e6f75e-6c39-49c5-949e-bf92a9dbf96a@googlegroups.com> <3c4cd2b3-6b1f-41b4-a889-269689239612@googlegroups.com> <87fu0rlmew.fsf@adaheads.home> <56f5fa2f-7790-4208-bd13-ddb08fc09a1a@googlegroups.com> <02755e71-b74b-4c83-93fb-b7f496b0061b@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm?? From: "Dan'l Miller" Injection-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 19:16:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53764 Date: 2018-07-10T12:16:10-07:00 List-Id: On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 1:26:36 PM UTC-5, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > On Tuesday, July 10, 2018 at 7:06:57 AM UTC-5, Dan'l Miller wrote: > > A corollary is: What can be done to FSF GNAT to make it that no one wo= uld even =E2=80=A2want=E2=80=A2 to download > > AdaCore's GPL Community Editions at all, ever, in the first place? >=20 > SPARK. Outside of AdaCore's paying dual-license customers, SPARK (and thus SPARK L= ibrary) has a GPL license, because it is outside of AJPO's Ada9X Project's = contractual requirement to require licensing of the NYU Ada compiler and th= e FSU Ada standard library via GMGPL originally, morphed to GPLv3 with Runt= ime Library Extension nowadays. Does any source-code repository for SPARK = licensed by GPLv3 with =E2=80=A2Runtime Library Exception=E2=80=A2 or GMGPL= exist at all (even if quite old, even if from Altran Praxis prior to acqui= sition by AdaCore)? Conversely, for projects that are already licensed by GPLv3 (and thus the v= iral spread of SPARK Library's GPLv3 to them is a big idempotent no-op), do= es there exist a non-licensing/technical impracticality of using GPLed SPAR= K with GPLv3-RLEed FSF GNAT?