From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson)
Subject: Re: GNAT availability
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 09:31:50 GMT
Date: 1995-03-25T09:31:50+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D5zp52.5A5@thomsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3ksd85$muo@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM
In <3ksd85$muo@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> daver@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Dave Retherford) writes:
> In article <3kq2u6$b59@watnews1.watson.ibm.com>,
> <walt@owgvm3.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > GNAT appears to be public domain. Am I correct in this?
> >
> Yes.
As some else will probably have posted already, GNAT is *not* public
domain; it's covered by the GNU "copyleft".
For many purposes they're about the same (you can freely copy it, read
the sources, etc.), but it's an important distinction.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst@thomsoft.com (kst@alsys.com still works)
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That's Keith Thompson *with* a 'p', Thomson Software Products *without* a 'p'.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1995-03-22 20:56 GNAT availability walt
1995-03-23 18:04 ` Dave Retherford
1995-03-25 9:31 ` Keith Thompson [this message]
1995-03-26 17:13 ` Michael Feldman
1995-03-25 17:45 ` Robert Dewar
1995-03-26 13:23 ` David Weller
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