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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,1f4564c446b22de3 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252 Received: by 10.224.181.75 with SMTP id bx11mr316323qab.7.1347556865087; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.90.129 with SMTP id bw1mr402466vdb.13.1347556865061; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:21:05 -0700 (PDT) Path: da15ni3445qab.0!nntp.google.com!v8no2402794qap.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:21:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <02a17083-bfb3-4e27-bb23-efcc85297589@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=31.52.181.203; posting-account=pmkN8QoAAAAtIhXRUfydb0SCISnwaeyg NNTP-Posting-Host: 31.52.181.203 References: <02a17083-bfb3-4e27-bb23-efcc85297589@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <3b2167b3-f8bb-47f0-b9a3-ca9686f6086b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Time Stamping a Program in Ada-95 From: Austin Obyrne Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 17:21:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-09-13T10:21:04-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:11:49 PM UTC+1, Austin Obyrne wrote: > Time Stamping a Program in Ada-95 If I =91compile to listing=92 using the= =93Run =96 Compile to Listing=94 facility in Ada-95 I can get a time stamp= declaration of the day and exact time instant of that compiling that is ve= ry useful in a court of law later as documentary evidence but if I subseque= ntly compile as usual later on i.e. just by clicking on the =91compile=92 b= utton in the toolbar of my editor it overwrites that earlier time stamp =96= I think. Lemme explain a bit better. When I complete a piece of developmen= t work that evolves as a piece of software I will want to secure the copyri= ght. Although there are many ways of doing this the way I favour most is th= e intrinsic time stamp method i.e. if I compile to listing I will get a pri= nt-out of the compiler number and the exact time and day on which it was la= st compiled. This is powerful evidence of copyright. This is only useful ho= wever if it has not been accidentally overwritten later by another compile-= to-listing operation by the same compiler or by a copy of that compiler. I = want to try and prevent that happening accidentally. Does anybody know more= about this =96 is it possible to do both without losing the time stamp fac= ility i.e. compile to listing and ordinary periodic compiling from the tool= bar also? If this is not possible to prevent it should be brought to the n= otice of the powers that be in Ada as a useful security function going begg= ing ?? Your help would be appreciated as usual. - adacrypt Just occurred to me -it isn't necesary to take any steps to prevent this ha= ppening if I make a hard copy of the original first-time compile-to-listing= time stamp ??? -=20 That would give me irrefutable copyright evidence surely ? I would still appreciate your views. - adacrypt