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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,27ffb76b91589c3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-25 16:47:23 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!crash!telesoft!kst From: kst@thomsoft.com (Keith Thompson) Subject: Re: GNAT availability X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pulsar Message-ID: Originator: kst@pulsar Sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) Organization: Thomson Software Products, San Diego, CA, USA References: <3kq2u6$b59@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> <3ksd85$muo@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> Date: Sat, 25 Mar 1995 09:31:50 GMT Date: 1995-03-25T09:31:50+00:00 List-Id: In <3ksd85$muo@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> daver@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Dave Retherford) writes: > In article <3kq2u6$b59@watnews1.watson.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) TeleSoft^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Alsys^H^H^H^H^H Thomson Software Products 10251 Vista Sorrento Parkway, Suite 300, San Diego, CA, USA, 92121-2718 That's Keith Thompson *with* a 'p', Thomson Software Products *without* a 'p'.