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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d7e592f9390e0746 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-21 07:25:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Where's the goodies? Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:20:25 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9ltqna$5dc$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B815D9C.9C22AA7A@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 998403626 5548 136.170.200.133 (21 Aug 2001 14:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Aug 2001 14:20:26 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12171 Date: 2001-08-21T14:20:26+00:00 List-Id: Hypothetically speaking, a lone developer in his home office could be compiling against the Win32Ada interface and not have an appropriate license, and Microsoft isn't likely to find out about it. (Do they have search software to check this on your machine when you're hooked up to the Internet? Or is it maybe built into Win2k that any use of the API is logged and reported when you dial up to get your e-mail? Or is my paranoia running rampant? :-) Hence, I doubt they are much into trying to enforce the license on the small-time players. Probably, they keep it more to stop it from slipping slowly out of their control and may only enforce it occasionally to preserve their rights. It really isn't in their interest to stop people from building software that can run on their OS (and ONLY their OS!) MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "David Botton" wrote in message news:mailman.998341469.25993.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > That is sort of a dead issue. Microsoft makes their SDKs now freely > available (ie. you get a lic. for free) off their web site. > > Of course the only started doing that once all the competition for compilers > on Windows was more or less gone...... > > David Botton > > > "Ted Dennison" wrote: > > > Of course you can only legally use it if > > you have a licensed copy of the C header files (eg:++). >