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From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@MITRE.ORG>
Subject: Re: HTML as GNAT source
Date: 1998/02/09
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At 09:36 PM 2/6/98 -0800, Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. wrote:
>To: Robert I. Eachus et al.
>From: Bob Leif, Ph.D.
>
>I agree with everything you wrote except for, "The tools that produce the
>input can be either proprietary, public domain (as would probably be case
>if I do a Y2K tool), or copylefted." One condition I wrote was that Ada
>tools should be available under conditions that permit their use by ALL
>compiler vendors.

   I think we are violently agreeing.  I want the HTML<-->Ada source
conversion to be independent of any value-added tools that decorate source
code.  That way we can have a completely vendor-and for that
matter--copyleft free format for exchanging well formatted source code, and
all sorts of people and products can produce (source) code in that format.
The fact that the GNAT front-end that reads this source form would probably
be subject to the same restrictions as GNAT itself would not affect any
code written in that source form.

>   I will not develop software that is potentially is covered by a >
copyleft.

    I'm sorry you feel this way.  I have developed software and released it
into the public domain, software covered by copyleft, software covered by
the LGPL, and proprietary software.  Each piece of software should be
treated individually, and the right restrictions for that software selected.

                                        Robert I. Eachus

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