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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/30 Message-ID: <7dqap0$6i1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 460702787 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dj8vi$2qi@drn.newsguy.com> <36FFAC73.F8B69D31@nospam.lmco.com> <7doiu3$m03$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <370075B2.63D03A21@spam.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Mar 30 10:58:43 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-30T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <370075B2.63D03A21@spam.com>, spamwithchipsplease@spam.com wrote: > robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html Yes, indeed, a good reference, and one that clearly describes the use of the word "free" (and warns against the use of the word freeware as a synonym). > and remember that all versions of GNAT, both the "public" > and "commercial" versions are free software, being > covered by the GPL and protecting your right to > redistribute. Absolutely! We are one of the relatively small number of companies that is dedicated to making all our products available as open source software using the GPL. Indeed this is one of our strong selling points to our supported customers. We recently negotiated a deal with one customer, and there was a large section on providing for source escrow. We pointed out that this entire section was completely unnecessary with open source software, since they already had the sources! Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own