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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,58988230753075de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 09:14:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <87wv4r1uy5.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <+uc0vOZmzK9b@eisner.encompasserve.org> <5ee5b646.0107291409.6538ad64@posting.google.com> <4ajzJ$TMn9o+@eisner.encompasserve.org> Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware Message-ID: <5PA97.12687$ar1.39620@www.newsranger.com> X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:13:53 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 16:13:53 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10873 Date: 2001-07-31T16:13:53+00:00 List-Id: In article , 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). --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com