begin quoting David Brown as of Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 05:05:14PM -0700: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:55:53PM -0700, SJS wrote: > > >How many <20 employee software development shops are out there > >releasing code under the GPL? > > Ada Core Technologies develops and supports the GNU Ada compiler. Their > toolchain is based on gcc, and is all GPL. They've been in business for > quite some time. > > Their runtime is GPL with exception so people can make proprietary > applications. They've removed the GPL exception from the publically > available runtime, but people the old versions still work. You can also > use the newest version if a GPL runtime works for you.
So if you use the GPL'd toolchain to _compile_ your application, you have to GPL your application, unless you pay them money? That's the sort of behavior that really pissed me off when proprietary companies did such things. > I don't know their size, but I don't believe they do anything else. I > don't imagine they are all that large. Cool datapoint nonetheless. -- I have a couple of ADA books, but no ADA experience. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
