Re: GNAT license rational (was [ANNOUNCE] XML/Ada 0.5 released)

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 08:09:06 GMT, Robert Dewar wrote:
> David Starner said
> 
><<Not wrt to GNAT, as the copyright on that is owned by the FSF. FSF 
> would have probably objected to ACT offering a different license to
> its customers than to the general public. >>
> 
> I suggest that you do not presume to speak for the FSF. 

I didn't presume to speak for the FSF; I merely offered my guess
on how they would feel about a subject.

> In fact Richard
> Stallman has no objections to the Cygnus model. 

Ah, but it's one thing for Cygnus to offer different licenses on
code it owns, and quite another for ACT to offer different licenses
on stuff the FSF owns. 

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