Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half?

[Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net>]

Frank wrote:

> Hi
> 
> What oportunities does an open licensing give to the big customers of
> AdaCore?
> What if a big company choses to keep all their development on the 3.15p
> version --- because they have 25 developers
> this becomes cheap. However they need the quality from the AdaCore
> service- so they buy one licence of "5-seats"-
> on which they compile all other code regulary (especially before testing)
> and from which they base their support requests. Does the licensing
> prevent this? If this is allowed it must surely be bad for AdaCore
> business.

Only programmers which have GNAT Tracker account may issue a support request
or download GNAT/Pro. Support Requests by Proxy are disallowed. How AdaCore
checks agaings proxy support requests I don't know.

But one thing you should know: It's "Support Requests" not "Bug Reports".
Programmers with GNAT Tracker account can also ask questions like:

I could implement A by using technique X or technique Y - which would be
better considing B - and why?

or

Why is "Hello World!" is soooo big? - ;-)

Not that I belive there are many such request.

Martin

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