From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Subject: Re: Shareware ADA compilers, are there any out there?
Date: 17 Jun 91 02:14:07 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2387@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 310@trwacs.UUCP
In article <310@trwacs.UUCP| erwin@trwacs.UUCP (Harry Erwin) writes:
|The correct term is validated, not certified. I stand corrected.
|I don't know of any validated shareware Ada compilers, and I
|would be surprised at their existence. One major concern of
|DoD was standardization of Ada, hence the original attempt
|to copyright the name. There may be people in DoD who would
|encourage a shareware development, but they are not alone.
|There are also people who would be very concerned about
|export controls on Ada. I'll close with that and drop the
|subject.
|
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|Harry Erwin
|Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com
Others have commented as to why there are no validated shareware Ada compilers.
Compiler validation is not an inexpensive process. I have never heard,
however, of any desire on the part of DoD to prevent shareware or freeware
Ada compilers from existing. Compiler validation and control over the
validation certification mark is how DoD maintains Ada standardization.
The registered trademark status of Ada as the name of a computer programming
language was allowed to lapse in 1987. The name was never copyrighted.
Ada is a DoD, ANSI and ISO standard, and, as such the comment on export controls
on Ada is effectively meaningless. It is a programming language in use in
many countries throughout the world.
Jeff Schweiger
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1991-06-14 22:30 Shareware ADA compilers, are there any out there? Brian Mark Yarow
1991-06-15 11:49 ` Harry Erwin
1991-06-15 18:04 ` Michael Feldman
1991-06-16 11:34 ` Harry Erwin
1991-06-17 2:14 ` Jeffrey M. Schweiger [this message]
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