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From: Geoff Bull <geoff@research.canon.com.au>
Subject: Re: ada on linux
Date: 2000/05/24
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dale wrote:
> 
> Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> > A bit of an odd division! But in any case I know of no
> > proprietary Ada 95 compilers on Linux.
> 
> I just looked up the word "proprietor" in the dictionary and it says
> 
>    "person having property, owner"
> 
> By this meaning I would have said that the FSF is the proprietor of
> Gnat, and therefore there is such a compiler on Linux.
> 
> ...or have I got something wrong here?

I think the relevant meaning is:

"manufactured and sold only by the owner of the patent, formula,
brand name, or trademark associated with the product"
(Maquarie Dictionary)


By this definition, Gnat is not proprietary.