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-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <1126875543.239666.325290@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <3467d$432b0af1$49956f8$22115@ALLTEL.NET> <9810292.iL9QpZxmrM@linux1.krischik.com> <87mzmbbn6x.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> In-Reply-To: <87mzmbbn6x.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 19:06:56 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1126984016 217.209.116.179 (Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:06:56 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 21:06:56 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4841 Date: 2005-09-17T19:06:56+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > Yes, fixing and extending GNAT is difficult and requires huge amounts > of time to build up the expertise. Fixing and extending libgnat > requires less time and expertise. If you are contemplating a fork, > you can restrict the fork to just libgnat, since the compiler's > license poses no problem to anyone. The standard library packages may not be so hairy, but what about the runtime? I would have thought it would be difficult to understand and modify. I also expect it to be tightly coupled to the compiler so that it would be hard to update it without looking at AdaCore's GPL code. (Does libgnat contain both the library packages and the runtime?) -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu