Franco Gasperoni is co-founder and Managing Director of AdaCore, the company that develops and offers commercial support for GNAT Pro, the Free Software environment for Ada 83, Ada 95, and Ada 2005. Franco has an engineering degree from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, France, and a PhD in Computer Science from New York University. While at the Ecole des Mines, Franco worked with Maurice Allais, the French Economics Nobel prize winner. Franco has also lectured and conducted research at New York University and at the Ecole des Telecommunications (ENST), in Paris, and has published over 25 papers. Email address: gasperoni@adacore.com Web site: http://www.adacore.com
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May 1, 2009
[POV: Point Of View] Eclipse: The Subprime Of Open Source?
In some sense, the Eclipse Public License (EPL) is a “mortgage-free” license in that one is allowed to add components and market them in an open-source or closed-source way. You can take and never give back. The EPL allows open-source software loans to default since one can add components on top of Eclipse and market them in an opaque and restricted fashion. This creates the potential for a software subprime crisis: One can borrow and never pay back.
