From: "Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>
Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:05:07 GMT
Date: 2004-09-11T21:05:07+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7MJ0d.103131$dP1.369128@newsc.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.10.1094898755.390.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Andrew Carroll wrote:
> Is the Ada language licensed or patented? By language I mean the
> grammar that the compiler uses. I think it's called a BNF grammar.
As Ludovic said the reference manual is copyrighted but that doesn't
matter. The only thing I can think of that could force anyone to keep
their compiler compatible is if the name "Ada" is a trademark that you
may use only if your compiler passes the validation tests.
Is it a trademark? Somebody ought to know.
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2004-09-11 10:53 Microsoft & Ada Andrew Carroll
2004-09-11 11:49 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-12 7:56 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-13 3:10 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-13 16:45 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-11 12:02 ` stephane richard
2004-09-11 12:26 ` Brian May
2004-09-11 12:43 ` stephane richard
2004-09-11 16:42 ` Wes Groleau
2004-09-12 1:27 ` tmoran
2004-09-12 8:01 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-12 22:04 ` Wes Groleau
2004-09-13 3:14 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-11 21:05 ` Björn Persson [this message]
2004-09-11 23:11 ` stephane richard
2004-09-12 3:12 ` Jeffrey Carter
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2004-09-13 4:39 Robert C. Leif
2004-09-14 2:19 ` Adrian Hoe
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2004-09-09 7:20 ` Andrew Carroll
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2004-09-07 6:31 ` Andrew Carroll
2004-09-08 12:15 ` Pascal Obry
2004-09-08 17:22 ` stephane richard
2004-09-08 21:57 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-09-13 3:07 ` Adrian Hoe
2004-09-13 3:05 ` Adrian Hoe
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1998-05-04 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1998-05-09 0:00 ` Mark D McKinneyq
1998-05-04 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
1998-05-05 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Daren Scot Wilson
1998-05-11 0:00 ` david.c.hoos.sr
1998-05-11 0:00 ` Dirk Craeynest
1998-05-12 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-05-14 0:00 ` nabbasi
1998-05-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Sergey Makarenko
1998-05-06 0:00 ` Adrian BY, Hoe
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