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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,fe6570654e1c4c73,start X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.224.193.72 with SMTP id dt8mr2805674qab.7.1350753498732; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.93.132 with SMTP id cu4mr818413vdb.14.1350753498711; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Path: r17ni43198318qap.0!nntp.google.com!x14no2533342qar.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 10:18:18 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=108.209.156.206; posting-account=iIbT1QoAAAAvuMyxrxgetIu9BJhvSidP NNTP-Posting-Host: 108.209.156.206 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Licensing Questions From: aditya siram Injection-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:18:18 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-10-20T10:18:18-07:00 List-Id: Hi all, Having looked at the Alioth benchmarks I'm looking into Ada as an alternative to C++ but I'm totally confused by the licensing. It seems like there's two entities GNU and ADACore both offering the a compiler/runtime but with different restrictions so please excuse these simple questions: - How are the two products different? Are they just the same codebase with different support models? - Can I develop commercial closed-source libraries and software using the GNU version of GNAT? - Will there be compatibility issues between GNU GNAT and Adacore GNAT beyond missing Ada 2012 features? - Is AdaCore the only company working on GNAT right now? - Are there performance differences between the two compilers? Thanks! -deech