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=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe6570654e1c4c73 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.180.87.100 with SMTP id w4mr1522712wiz.3.1350756186708; Sat, 20 Oct 2012 11:03:06 -0700 (PDT) Path: q10ni65193476wif.0!nntp.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Niklas Holsti Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licensing Questions Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:03:06 +0300 Organization: Tidorum Ltd Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: individual.net J2hcKU+7Y+IjeglijpjFdwSZCHcvMpbid41um4UYo4VJ7L56IdndR1TZ7ok97VRcBa Cancel-Lock: sha1:nsYOUd5kICOUkbSfiyBD0SGoqLA= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121010 Thunderbird/16.0.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-10-20T21:03:06+03:00 List-Id: On 12-10-20 20:18 , aditya siram wrote: > 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 > -- Niklas Holsti Tidorum Ltd niklas holsti tidorum fi . @ .