[omniORB] Beta release of AdaBroker, an IDL to Ada precompiler

[Helge Penne]

Hmmm, in my opinion the GNU GPL is not ideal for tools.  Have you considered the
GNU Library GPL?

Since both the GPL and LGPL have serious problems with regards to embedded
systems (you have to provide the end user with source or object code for both
your own code and for any third party tools....), a license that will allow the
developer to put the application in ROM without distributing full application
source to the end user would be the ideal.  There are a number of licenses out
there that are written with this in mind.  The license for eCos (open source real
time OS) is one of them (see http://www.cygnus.com/ecos/).

- Helge

Fabien Azavant wrote:

> We are pleased to announce the first beta release of AdaBroker, an
> IDL to Ada precompiler and a CORBA runtime based on OmniORB2.
>
> The WWW page for AdaBroker is: http://adabroker.eu.org/
>
> AdaBroker is released under the GNU General Public License. The software can
> be downloaded from the WWW page.
>
> Features :
> ----------
>
> - Most of the CORBA features are implemented except dynamic
>   invocation. This includes CORBA types, CORBA exceptions, forward
>   declarations and multiple inheritance. The Ada tasking is also
>   working with AdaBroker. AdaBroker/Examples provides
>   several examples of the available features.
>
> - This release has been successfully tested on Solaris. It has been
>   reported to work on Linux (RedHat and Debian) with a home-built
>   Ada and C++ compiler based on EGCS 1.1.1 and GNAT 3.11p.
>
> - If you need to debug AdaBroker, you can create a file adabroker.opt in
>   your current directory. This file should contain lines with package
>   names you want to debug. For instance, corba.orb will enable debug
>   messages from package CORBA.ORB. If you want to debug C++ files, you
>   can set the environment variable TRACELEVEL to a given naturel depending
>   on how much detailed you want the output to be.
>
> Mailing-lists:
> --------------
>
> Several mailing-lists have been created for discussions around AdaBroker:
>
>   - adabroker@adabroker.eu.org: general discussions about AdaBroker
>       To subscribe, send a mail to "adabroker-request@adabroker.eu.org"
>       with the single line "subscribe" in the body (subject will be ignored)
>
>   - adabroker-announce@adabroker.eu.org: low trafic mailing-list that will
>       only carry important information about AdaBroker, such as new releases,
>       beta test announces, etc.
>       To subscribe, send a mail to
>       "adabroker-announce-request@adabroker.eu.org" with the single line
>       "subscribe" in the body (subject will be ignored)
>
> Contributors:
> -------------
>
> AdaBroker has been developped since January, 1999 by the following
> contributors:
>
> * Fabien Azavant (azavant@enst.fr)
> * Emmanuel Chavane (chavane@enst.fr)
> * Jean-Marie Cottin (cottin@enst.fr)
> * Laurent Kubler (kubler@enst.fr)
> * Vincent Niebel (niebel@enst.fr)
> * Laurent Pautet (pautet@enst.fr)
> * Sebastien Ponce (ponce@enst.fr)
> * Thomas Quinot (quinot@enst.fr)
> * Frank Singhoff (singhoff@enst.fr)
> * Samuel Tardieu (sam@enst.fr)
>
> --
> E-mail: azavant@email.enst.fr  ||  Fabien.Azavant@enst.fr
>
> P-mail: Telecom Paris
>         46, rue Barrault - 75634 Paris cedex 13

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Helge Penne (helge.penne@datarespons.no)
Senior Software Development Engineer
Data Respons AS, Postboks 489, N-1323 Høvik, Norway
Phone: +47 67112081 / 22719957 (work/home)