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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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"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.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.