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,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!bcklog1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.scarlet.biz!news.scarlet.biz.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:26:49 -0500 From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO? References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1151413996.881418.65260@x69g2000cwx.googlegroups.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:26:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87wtb1jab1.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:v6IY+KEX5lOzn7QzwPCO+wUw1hI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.235.193.201 X-Trace: sv3-B2W3jpOQVRvB2g+3d/s8OHacBmvOvGSLTYdQxWBtHS5svkH/pO1a92MXJxH9SZURDdtXKhnF+g5RC7M!AQ9idVMfTZLbWu8hnyHv8ARO+YawYhRMEMmkOzv94wSFiLWjSfHIZ9BYeaEfhvLSgqOtlIz6mQ4= X-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.be X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@scarlet.biz X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5253 Date: 2006-06-28T22:26:58+02:00 List-Id: Simon Wright writes: > M E Leypold writes: > >> Add to that, that their Pro-Version >> probably still has the linking exception. > > Indeed it does. We would be quite unable to use GNAT without the > exception (well, I think so, and I wouldn't bust a gut to persuade the > business that GPL'd weapon systems are OK because the customer owns > the code anyway and won't want to distribute it). Delivery of GPL'd software by a weapons system will probably terminate the recipient anyway :) -- Ludovic Brenta.