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,d672d2d8b4e233b2 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.205.126.4 with SMTP id gu4mr1484086bkc.8.1343564277494; Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Path: m12ni38133bkm.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Compiling FSF GNAT standalone? Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 05:17:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <90dee338-8939-49b1-90ea-74f87a5e60fd@googlegroups.com> References: <6f23953d-afc2-40d8-8155-da878cb876df@googlegroups.com> <970bce81-a038-46d4-91f0-46a6c76986e9@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.53.16.194 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343564277 3170 127.0.0.1 (29 Jul 2012 12:17:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 12:17:57 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.53.16.194; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-07-29T05:17:57-07:00 List-Id: Hi Simon Thanks very much for your post, it fills in a lot. After reading an old thread, AdaCore ... the Next SCO?, I am afraid to down= load anything from Adacore's site. It seems to me that using only the FSF v= ersion will give me some layer of protection against a potential patent tro= ll. Your website has a lot of good information, thanks again for posting about = this. As you were saying there are effectively 3 different release schedules for = GNAT, all out of sync. And as you were saying it looks like Adacore makes c= ommits directly to FSF. If I install gnat with apt-get, then I have gnatpp(with bug) called through= GNAT and I can call gnatmake directly on a file too. If I install GCC, I d= on't get Ada in the vanilla package but if GNAT is also installed I have GC= C + Ada. If I call gcc with the right flags then I can compile a file and r= elease the code under whatever license I want but if I call gnatmake can I = still release it under whatever license I want? If the gnatmake is being ca= lled from a Adacore GPL package then I can't right? If vanilla GCC is not e= quipped with GNAT but is after GNAT is installed, is the installation proce= ss installing a totally new version of GCC or is GCC still calling Adacore'= s GPL only GNAT somewhere in the process? I am so confused! If the bloody DOD had of commissioned a free Ada compiler= back at the start, the mandate would have had teeth and the programming wo= rld might not have been so centred around C. I am finding the licensing situation around Ada a total pain the the ASIS!