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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: ig25@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Thomas Koenig) Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/08/16 Message-ID: <5t50f6$2vi@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 264594661 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de X-Complaints-To: usenet@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de X-Trace: nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de 871761197 15342 (None) 129.13.110.243 Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t_Karlsruhe_(TH),_Germany_?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In gnu.misc.discuss, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: >The situation with GNAT is very much like that with the GCC snapshots. >The GNU project strongly discourages people from distributing the >snapshots for exactly the same reasons I give above, and generally >we don't see the snapshots being widely distributed, and that is >definitely a good thing. Some very capable people have now started developing a gcc version in the open, including frequent snapshots (see http://www.cygnus.com/egcs). They don't appear to have anyobdy for the Ada frontend yet, though, probably because not very many people outside of ACT have hacked on GNAT, and not very many people in the free software community seem to use Ada, compared to C and C++. [Actually, this is quite a pity. I'd like to rewrite a small piece of Unix standard software I've contributed to the free systems in Ada, but I'm more or less forced to continue to use C because the state of UNIX bindings for GNAT is less than happy. Certainly anybody who reads bugtraq has to agree that using C in security-relevant code has its dangers :-] -- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.