Re: In praise of Ada Freeware

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <5PA97.12687$ar1.39620@www.newsranger.com>, Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com> writes:
> In article <tch0yFB+db$i@eisner.encompasserve.org>, Larry Kilgallen says...
>>
>>Obviously our vantage points differ.  I quote from a recent post in
>>the VMS newsgroup where the meaning of "The Freeware" is considered
>>to be known by all.  There may be licensing restrictions on some
>>elements (probably due to the advent of GCC), but very little on
>>those CD-ROMs comes without source.  The citation is for an FTP
>>mirror of the discs from two years ago.
> 
> Ahhh. Ok. It may have been clearer if you had stated this up-front to us who
> don't live in the VMS world.
> 
> Just to further clarify, do you get the right to modify and redistribute the
> sources with this "VMS Freeware"? In the larger world you would generally not
> have either right with Freeware (as the sources aren't given to you in the first
> place).

Originally you could do anything you wanted (subject to export control
and similar laws).  These days they have added some wording that says
"check the individual package description", allowing them to include
GCC.