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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other
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M E Leypold writes:

> Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
>
>> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:
>> > It's also clear that ACT cannot legally impose the GPL on their
>> > compilers the way they have. The DOD contract that resulted in GNAT
>> > was to create an Ada-95 compiler that is free (in both senses of the
>> > word) and may be used to create un-free programs. (These requirements
>> > resulted in the GMGPL.) As there is no Ada-0X standard yet, there can
>> > be no Ada-0X compilers yet, and in fact the ACT GPL compilers are
>> > Ada-95 compilers that implement some of the features of the Ada-0X
>> > draft only as an option. It seems ACT is calling them "200[5|6]" to
>> > try to get around the requirements of the contract, but it's clear
>> > that these are Ada-95 compilers with some extra features optionally
>> > available, and so in violation of the contract. (I wonder who at the
>> > DOD one would contact about this, since the AJPO no longer exists.)
>> >
>> > Of course, IANAL.
>> 
>> What if the contract had a fixed term, and has now expired?
>> Conjectures, hypotheses and speculation.
>
> What if it didn't? Me thinks the expiry date was "when there is no Ada
> 95 anymore in Gnat".
>
> Regards .. Markus

More conjectures, hypotheses and speculation.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.