From: dewar@gnat.com
Subject: Re: Gnat Free ?
Date: 1998/10/16
Date: 1998-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <708lc8$4ud$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 708040$4h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <708040$4h4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
dennison@telepath.com wrote:
> In article <3627196D.720A@Entenhausen.net>,
> Donald.Duck@Entenhausen.net wrote:
> > I have one question to GNAT. Is it still free of charge ? The last
> > version I had was 3.07 (from cs.nyu.edu), but I heard that GNAT is not
> > longer available free, ...
>
> You heard wrong. Well, I suppose it could be considered not free, depending
> on your definition of free, but lets not get into that. Gnat is under the
> GPL, and thus can *never* be made proprietary.
That might be a bit misleading. The original poster was not asking whether
GNAT is proprietary, but whether it was available free of charge.
The GPL has nothing at all to do with the
amount that is charged for software (you can have non-GPL'ed software that
costs nothing, and GPL'ed software that has non-zero cost). The GPL has to
do with redistribution rights, and rights to get hold of the sources.
That's an important distinction, because we often encounter people who think
that the GPL requires us to make public releases of GNAT. This is not at all
the case. Ada Core Technologies is certainly not required to make public
releases. We choose to do so periodically, updating the public version to
the latest and greatest GNAT technology, because we feel it is helpful for
the Ada community to have a version that is accessible for downloading at
no charge, particularly for the academic community.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-10 0:00 Gnat Executable Size Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Corey Minyard
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Lieven Marchand
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Robert B. Love
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-15 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Gnat Free ? Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar [this message]
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jonathan Guthrie
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Bruno BEAUFILS
1998-10-25 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-17 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-17 0:00 ` The Ludwig Family
1998-10-18 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Dale Pontius
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-18 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1998-10-23 0:00 ` system
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Donald Duck
1998-10-16 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1999-02-13 0:00 ` Fred J. McCall
1998-10-17 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1998-10-17 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Gnat Executable Size geertbosch
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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1998-10-22 0:00 Gnat Free ? Van Snyder
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