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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d17f9c8d910b90f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!newsfeed.stueberl.de!peernews3.colt.net!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!frankfurt1.telia.de!newsfeed101.telia.com!nf02.dk.telia.net!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031114 X-Accept-Language: sv, sv-se, sv-fi, en-gb, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <7MJ0d.103131$dP1.369128@newsc.telia.net> Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:05:07 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1094936707 217.209.116.179 (Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:05:07 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 23:05:07 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3596 Date: 2004-09-11T21:05:07+00:00 List-Id: 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=20 matter. The only thing I can think of that could force anyone to keep=20 their compiler compatible is if the name "Ada" is a trademark that you=20 may use only if your compiler passes the validation tests. Is it a trademark? Somebody ought to know. --=20 Bj=F6rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu