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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c9ea66d3dcd0bfcf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-30 18:16:47 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3AEE0E5C.2ED1@li.net> From: Vincent Marciante X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (OS/2; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT license rational (was [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released) References: <5viG6.1064$SZ5.86996@www.newsranger.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:16:12 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.191.118.172 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 988679805 168.191.118.172 (Tue, 01 May 2001 01:16:45 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 01:16:45 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7062 Date: 2001-04-30T21:16:12-04:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > > In article <5viG6.1064$SZ5.86996@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison says... > > > >In article , 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 > > 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 (To reply directly, please remove the underbar and the word following it from the address indicated.)