Re: Ada student homework ?

[Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>]

In article <E13S5.443413$i5.7723710@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
  tmoran@acm.org wrote:

>   "CLAW user" does not mean "CLAW vendor".

Well that's the point isn't it? :-)
In the open source world, there is no legal distinction, any
user of a product can sell it if they want to to third parties.

> >Presumably because you intend to make money selling it
>   CLAW is owned by RR Software, not me.

Oh sorry, I thought you were part of the development team
for CLAW.

> >We are not planning to make money selling GtkAda for use with
> >Rational etc compilers, ...

> Presumably you do intend to make money selling something and
> expect usage of GtkAda with GNAT to help,

Well we can certainly provide support for people wanting to
use GtkAda with GNAT, but so far we have no plans to provide
support for people who want to use GtkAda with other vendors
compilers.

> unless ACT's development and
> marketing of GtkAda is purely philanthropic.

Well the development of GtkAda was indeed a volunteer effort
in the open source arena. Ada Core Technologies, as above,
will provide support for GtkAda.

Philanthropy is not really the word you are looking for here.
Most certainly ACT spends some of its resources on trying to
help the success of Ada generally, and the continued development
and support of GtkAda is partly in this category (certainly the
fact that we make an effort to keep it easily portable to other
Ada compilers is in this category).


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