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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,13b7917466f2d19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 10:20:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!newsfeed.mathworks.com!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC32B77.EEF76D6B@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wwgrol@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0 References: <9a575af3.0110020747.2304ce86@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110022002.7ccde025@posting.google.com> <5ee5b646.0110060639.31567261@posting.google.com> <3BC16DA1.8D219F94@brighton.ac.uk> <3BC196CF.ACEA8F64@brighton.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 11:53:11 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1002646428 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 09 Oct 2001 12:53:48 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 12:53:48 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14059 Date: 2001-10-09T11:53:11-05:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > The only real danger here is that the copyright holder could always decide to > provide a release under a different license. However, the FSF is the copyright > holder for Gnat, and I doubt they will ever do that. :-) IANAL (sounds like an ungrammatical self-description), but I think that the authors who gave the rights to FSF could legally take 'em back--except that the government contract that financed GNAT's basic development requires it to be under the GPL. And the GPL requires any modifications to remain under the GPL. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau