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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4eb65fab6deaa097 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: Lack of Mature Tools (was: Lockheed Martin, Green Hills, etc.) Date: 2000/05/04 Message-ID: <8eqgfn$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 620456787 References: <87aeidsgr8.fsf@think.mihalis.net> <8ep009$is3$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Thu, 04 May 2000 00:28:16 GMT, Ken Garlington wrote: >"Matthew Woodcraft" wrote in message >news:jhi*wLbro@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk... >> >The point is, I will say it again, that we want to make it >> >very clear that Ada Core Technologies makes no kinds of >> >guarantees, nor takes any legal responsibilities, for the >> >public versions of GNAT. We do not want to take any other >> >steps that could be misinterpreted by others as indications >> >that this is not the case. >> >> You do guarantee that the source you distribute matches the binaries >> you distribute, no? > >Somehow, I'm guessing the answer to this question (with respect to the >public version) is "no". The whole reason for the question (assuming that they are distributing anything, which they certainly do to the NYU people) is that they are violating the GPL if the answer is no. Since the FSF holds the copyright, if they distribute, the source must match the binary or they could be in for legal trouble. (In theory. In practice, the FSF has much better things to do with their time than fight with ACT.) -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org The hell that is supposedly out there could be no worse than the hell that is sometimes seen in here.