Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

Martin Krischik <krischik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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.

This is not true.

You can use GMGPL sources with GPL sources; the license for the
resulting product must be 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.

It's not the AdaCL libraries that are unavailable to closed source
users; it's the GNAT runtime libraries.

As others have pointed out, that just means there will now be a better
market for different Ada runtimes.

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