From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Dec Ditching Ada?
Date: 1996/09/07
Date: 1996-09-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.842131187@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.842129544@schonberg
Ted said
""That's a good argument for calling ACT commercial. GNAT itself, not being
owned by anyone and being freely available, would not seem to fit the
definition.""
There is another VERY wrong piece of misinformation there. GNAT definitely
IS owned by someone. The copyright is held by the Free Software Foundatoin.
The copyright notice appears on every source file, and the binary will
display this notice if you use the -gnatv switch:
"GNAT 3.08w (960827) Copyright 1991-1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
Just as Microsoft grants a limited use license for use of its copyrighted
products, the FSF also grants a limited use license for the use of *its*
copyrighted products.
The terms of the license are indeed different, and of course Microsoft
will only grant you their much more limited license if you cough up
money up front, but the ownership situation is identical in both cases.
GNAT is very definitely NOT in the public domain!
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-08-22 0:00 Dec Ditching Ada? Charlie Cole
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Douglas Rupp
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Howard W. LUDWIG
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-22 0:00 ` Brian & Karen Bell
1996-08-22 0:00 ` James Squire
1996-08-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-26 0:00 ` James Squire
1996-09-04 0:00 ` Uri Raz
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Use of the term "commercial" (was "Dec Ditching Ada?") Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Dec Ditching Ada? Richard Kenner
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Dennison
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Uri Raz
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-16 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1996-09-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-10 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1996-09-11 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-09-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Klaus Wyss
1996-08-23 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Brendan Boulter
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-08-23 0:00 Alain Graziani
1996-08-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-08-27 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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