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Subject: Re: How to get Ada to ?cross the chasm??
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:00:05 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-04-18, Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> 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 ?
>
> Adacore force the GPL on any software developed using the Community
> version. See

And it's all based on Robert Dewar's work that was paid for by U.S. grants
funded by American Tax Dollars. The guy was a genius in more ways than one.

This situation is not just bad, it's offensive.

> 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 really OK, but the fact basically only one compiler is available to
people (not corporations) who want to develop in Ada is a very bad
situation, indeed.