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: 103376,755ddcdc01e691d0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: Deffernrce between pubic&commercial Ada Date: 1999/04/23 Message-ID: <7fome4$opc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 469779119 References: <371ea706.0@public1.ktts.kharkov.ua> <371F0EA1.F1D8B33@ulm.mch.sni.de> <7fnjah$2oi3@news1.newsguy.com> <7foavg$3t1@news1.newsguy.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: Fri Apr 23 02:37:56 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7foavg$3t1@news1.newsguy.com>, Samuel Mize wrote: > There is one more difference: the public and commercial > versions are released under the GNU license and the MGNU > (Modified GNU) license, while the wavefronts are released > under the super-secret NGNU (Non-scripsit GNU) license > which empowers ACT to confiscate your computers and shoot > your kids if you let anyone else see the source code. Since Sam put no :-) on that, and since people like spam-spam-spam might actually believe the above, I had better clarify :-) The wavefronts are released to specific customers to solve specific problems if there is no other way of solving the problem (generally customers and we prefer to find an effective work around if possible, since you don't want to move to a new less-tested version of the compiler whenever you have a problem if you can avoid it). These wavefronts are released under the GPL and GMG (GNAT modified GPL) in the usual manner, but with the implicit understanding that we would prefer these versions not be further distributed, since they are work in progress that has not been sufficiently well tested for release, and it would be confusing, and non-helpful, to have multiple versions of these wavefronts around (we don't even routinely make these available to our customers, only on request if they are needed to solve a problem!) Robert Dewar Ada Core Technologies -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own