From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6c244f5de2c060a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-23 17:14:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!212.74.64.35!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet-peer!btnet!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!internal-news-hub.cableinet.net!news1.cableinet.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tony Gair Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: compiler server ...... for Gnat Message-ID: <20010924011302.4a1a77d7.tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk> References: <20010918135517.5d3a4ba1.tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk> <5ee5b646.0109191218.2df5a436@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.5.3 (GTK+ 1.2.9; i586-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 00:15:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.31.154.215 X-Complaints-To: http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/abuse X-Trace: news1.cableinet.net 1001290533 62.31.154.215 (Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:15:33 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 01:15:33 BST Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13274 Date: 2001-09-24T00:15:33+00:00 List-Id: Hmmm, sounds good its a deal On 19 Sep 2001 13:18:51 -0700 dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) wrote: > Tony Gair wrote in message news:<20010918135517.5d3a4ba1.tonygair@blueyonder.co.uk>... > > > It would also be helpful to know peoples thoughts on > > the difficulty and wether I would be sued for doing this. > > Well anyone can sue anyone for anything, but if you are > worrying about whether modifying GNAT in this kind of > direction would somehow cause you to be sued by ACT, then > the answer is of course not. The whole point of Free Software is to > encourage such invention and adaptation, > that's why the sources are made available, and we are > happy to see people using GNAT for this kind of purpose, > since one of the original goals of GNAT was to provide > a Free Software system suitable for such experimentation. > > As to difficulty, I would actually guess that you don't > need to modify GNAT itself, but rather just wrap it in > appropriate scripts, and that should make the project > much more practical. > > Robert Dewar > Ada Core Technologies