Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

The change of
license has no effect on corporations large enough to use GNAT Pro, or
on students, hobbyists, or free software developers.

Does it? The GPL is viral and booch, charles, AdaCL - all currently GMGPL
would need to to relicensed to GPL now to be used with with GNAT/GPL.

AdaCL at least produced licence-warnings when compiled with GNAT/GPL. While
licence warning are not legal the at least shows how AdaCore sees things.
And this would mean that those libs become unavailable to closed source
users.

Martin

PS: Just in case you have not seen any warnings so far: all package
specifications copied from the RM come with licence "unrestricted" and they
are free in all respects. Only when you use a packaged not mentioned inside
the RM the warning pops up.
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