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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a60013da4806d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-23 00:46:03 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!news.tele.dk!151.189.0.75!newsfeed.germany.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!easynews.net!news.cid.net!news.enyo.de!news1.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada for Windows CE Date: 23 Feb 2001 09:52:58 +0100 Organization: Enyo's not your organization Message-ID: <87snl53hn9.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5459 Date: 2001-02-23T09:52:58+01:00 List-Id: "Robert C. Leif, Ph.D." writes: > I must admit, that I do have reservations because of GNAT being > available for free. Why? ACT's staff isn't starving, and although there are some rumors that GNAT had quite an impact on the proprietary Ada compiler industry (I don't know if this is true, more me scapegoating), the availability of GNAT has certainly benefited the Ada community as a whole. > I believe that there may be a way around this. Give away GNAT, as > usual, and sell some useful low-level libraries or other tools for > embedded systems. If I interpret Robert Dewar's part comments on related issues correctly, this is not the business modell of Ada Core Technologies. > What is ACT's policy on what I would call a sublicense for a specific > architecture? ACT is not the copyright owner of large parts of GNAT, at least according to the source code. Copyright has been assigned to the Free Software Foundation, and some parts of the runtime library are copyrighted by Florida State University. Non-GPL sublicensing is unlikely to happen, however. But you are free to take the GNAT sources and port it to another target, and license the result under the GPL.