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From: Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com>
Subject: Re: Help help.. please.i am totaly new in ada programing
Date: 1999/11/03
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In article <slrn81v52t.1aj.aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk>,
  aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Nov 1999 19:18:22 GMT, Robert Dewar
> <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >are using a totally different definition of free (gratuit)
than
> >what I meant when I said that GNAT+GNU/Linux is the only
totally
> >free (libre) Ada 95 solution.
>
> I think that even using the libre sense of the word "free"
this is
> still an incorrect claim. Some of the BSDs are as "free" as
GNU/Linux,
> at least as far as the following go:
>
>    freedom to see the source code
>    freedom to modify and redistribute the source code
>
> and GNAT will run on them.

That's absolutely correct, sorry, yes both NetBSD and FreeBSD
+ GNAT are also totally free software solutions (the BSD license
certainly qualifies as a free software license).

Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies


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