Re: Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes in GNAT & its GCC-contained runtime en masse from GNAT GPL Community Edition?

[Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com>]

On Saturday, 5 May 2018 15:19:23 UTC+1, Dan'l Miller  wrote:
> On Saturday, May 5, 2018 at 7:44:54 AM UTC-5, Luke A. Guest wrote:
> >
> > GNAT Pro -> GNAT GPL -> FSF GNAT
> 
> Yes, that is how I suspect that it is as well.
> 
> The question is where precisely historically did each of the files is the GNAT-Pro branch originate?  I suspect that even the oldest of these are files whose 

Back in 1995, when I was learning Ada9X, GANT was distributed separately from GCC as it hadn't been accepted into the main tree, AFAIK. As of GCC-2.95.1 which is around EGCS era IIRC, there is no gcc/ada directory. I managed to find these:

http://archive.adaic.com/ase/ase02_02/lang/ada/gnat/3.12p/
http://sunsite.rwth-aachen.de:3080/ftp/pub/mirror/cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.15p/

You'll find there are copyright notices belonging to FSU as well there.

> rights to copy were assigned to FSF by NYU 1992 to 1993, likely predating even the formation of AdaCore (and its twin in France).  My suspicion is that even 

AdaCore was "spun out of NYU" and I still have no clue how it became a French company.