From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: GNAT availability
Date: 25 Mar 1995 12:45:20 -0500
Date: 1995-03-25T12:45:20-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3l1krg$pig@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3kq2u6$b59@watnews1.watson.ibm.com
GNAT is absolutely NOT public domain. It is copyrighted under the GPL (GNU
public license). However, the whole purpose of the GPL is to ensure that
you can always get a copy free with sources and freely redistribute it.
One of the problems with public domain is that anyone can make their own
copyrighted version (ever go into a music store and try to by a
non-copyrighted version of Beethoven piano sonatas?) The GPL stops people
from doing this.
Most people think of public domain as something that is freely available
and will stay that way. Unfortunately public domain doesn't mean this, but
GPL does!
So, download away, copies of GNAT for a bunch of popular targets (and some
not so popular ones) can be ftp'ed from cs.nyu.edu -- look in directory
pub/gnat.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1995-03-25 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-22 20:56 GNAT availability walt
1995-03-23 18:04 ` Dave Retherford
1995-03-25 9:31 ` Keith Thompson
1995-03-26 17:13 ` Michael Feldman
1995-03-25 17:45 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1995-03-26 13:23 ` David Weller
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