Re: GNAT license rational (was [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released)

[Vincent Marciante <marciant_remove@li.net>]

Ted Dennison wrote:
> 
> In article <5viG6.1064$SZ5.86996@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison says...
> >
> >In article <H7iG6.2949$DW1.140771@iad-read.news.verio.net>, Vincent Marciante
> >says...
> >>We need a comment from RBKD regarding the rational for the special exception
> >>in GNAT's license.
> >
> >I was around before that exception existed. What happened was that someone > 

<snip>

> Well, I got no less than 2 replies from Dr. Dewar on this one. I haven't seen
> one of his postings by proxy pop up here on this subject, so suffice it to say
> that he *strongly* disagrees with this version of events, at least as it
> pertains to the GNAT RTL.

What I'm really wondering is whether or not having 
the exception in general, infrastructure-type Ada
code that is released is at all appropriate.  I 
thought that knowing the exact rationale for the 
GNAT would have been helpful.

Vinny 

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