Re: In praise of Ada Freeware

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <tch0yFB+db$i@eisner.encompasserve.org>, Larry Kilgallen says...
>
>Obviously our vantage points differ.  I quote from a recent post in
>the VMS newsgroup where the meaning of "The Freeware" is considered
>to be known by all.  There may be licensing restrictions on some
>elements (probably due to the advent of GCC), but very little on
>those CD-ROMs comes without source.  The citation is for an FTP
>mirror of the discs from two years ago.

Ahhh. Ok. It may have been clearer if you had stated this up-front to us who
don't live in the VMS world.

Just to further clarify, do you get the right to modify and redistribute the
sources with this "VMS Freeware"? In the larger world you would generally not
have either right with Freeware (as the sources aren't given to you in the first
place).

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