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,a996db867563769d X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.flashnewsgroups.com-b7.4zTQh5tI3A!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A few questions on Ada and Ada implementations References: <82ei9dstls.fsf@stephe-leake.org> Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 04:30:54 -0500 Message-ID: <82k4j2qhm9.fsf@stephe-leake.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:js8lpOis2sxtIfd1JZCx3JK6rps= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@flashnewsgroups.com Organization: FlashNewsgroups.com X-Trace: c7c584d11c2b5e029e66115675 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:17075 Date: 2010-12-22T04:30:54-05:00 List-Id: Kulin Remailer 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. -- -- Stephe