Re: A few questions on Ada and Ada implementations

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Kulin Remailer <remailer@reece.net.au> writes:

>> > Are there any free (as in no license restrictions, not GPL-
>> > anything) 
>> 
>> That definition of "free" is not at all common; what you describe is
>> most widely known as "public domain".
>
> I meant just as I wrote, free of license restrictions, not free as in
> no-cost, as the rest of my message showed. I didn't expect anything in the
> public domain would meet my needs. If you read my post I'm sure you realize
> that, 

No, I can't tell from the rest of your post what license terms you want.

You want a cheap compiler, and you don't want GPL. Otherwise, you just
say "unencumbered".

If there were a hypothetical Ada vendor that sold a compiler with a
license of "you can't distribute a binary with our compiler runtime
without paying a royalty", would that be "unencumbered"?

Or if the license said "you can distribute a binary with our compiler
runtime, but you cannot distribute the sources to the runtime"?

Both of those are "license restrictions", and are "encumbered" from my
point of view.

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-- Stephe