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: 103376,13b7917466f2d19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-15 02:41:28 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!colt.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!peer.news.eu-x.com!server2.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT and GCC 3.0 Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:08:27 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BCA997B.E13CEAD@brighton.ac.uk> 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> <5ee5b646.0110091420.381892e1@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1003137998 29382 193.62.183.154 (15 Oct 2001 09:26:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Oct 2001 09:26:38 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14505 Date: 2001-10-15T09:26:38+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > John English wrote in message news:<3BC196CF.ACEA8F64@brighton.ac.uk>... > > Not being a lawyer > > Then please refrain from legal opinions or guesses :-) :-) > (especially when they are wildly wrong) I wasn't expressing a legal opinion (I don't have any ;-) or guessing. I was only expressing a personal concern which arose from experience with other "open source" products, and I don't believe it was out of order to have aired that concern. And I'm glad I did, because various people have now reassured me that my fears are unfounded. So I can now rest easy in my bed at night, secure in the protection of the GPL. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------