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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6545823a74c7c29 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: GNAT Professional ? Date: 1998/09/14 Message-ID: <35FD3F4D.D1AD7F53@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 391024206 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6t6ihg$dkn1@onews.collins.rockwell.com> <6t93vn$g8l$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35F91C48.87202332@elca-matrix.ch> <6tc3bf$omu$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <35FABAEA.BBA81103@grep.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news6.ispnews.com 905788747 206.103.58.16 (Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:59:07 PDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: achrist@easystreet.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 08:59:07 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Paul Whittington wrote: > > What public version? > > In two days it'll be one year since the last "public" release of GNAT In some discussion of GPL, ACT, etc, last year, here's what Robert Dewar explained about this last year, according to deja news: -----------------------------------Excerpt follows -------------------- Note that people's willingness to abide by the informal ?do not distribute? rules is based on their perception that the request is reasonable, and is indeed based on a concern to avoid premature distribution. If they felt that the request was based on a desire to hoard software that was in fact ready for wide distribution, they would not concur, and the redistribution would occur. There is a huge philosophical difference between seeing distribution restricted because a group of people agree that it is not a good idea for the good of the project involved to distribute software prematurely, and a situation in which distributable software is being hoarded. ---------------------------End of Excerpt -----------------------