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=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,1efdd369be089610 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1d8ab55e71d08f3d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: what DOES the GPL really say? Date: 1997/08/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 263918887 References: <5ph4g5$sbs$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5pim4l$5m3$1@news.nyu.edu> <5ptv7r$4e2$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <5pu5va$64o$1@news.nyu.edu> <5qdof6$iav$1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <33D6FA2B.9B7@ix.netcom.com> <33E00855.2BA7@ix.netcom.com> Organization: Institut fuer Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1997-08-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Ronald Cole writes: > dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > > < > "current product release" of GNAT) for less money from someone else, > > because of policies like Cygnus' or ACT's whereby they'll threaten to > > quit doing business with you if you exercise your "right". > > >> > > > > This is pure fantasy, ACT has at no time threatened to quit doing > > business with anyone for any reason. > > So, if one of your "wavefront" customers started giving me copies and > I proceeded to make them available for anonymous ftp, you wouldn't > retaliate? > > Are there any wavefront clients that would like to test this bold > assertion out? Well, if you can't find any, it might just be that they don't feel compelled to invest labour in order to actively encourage and support an obvious troublemaker. -- David Kastrup Phone: +49-234-700-5570 Email: dak@neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de Fax: +49-234-709-4209 Institut f�r Neuroinformatik, Universit�tsstr. 150, 44780 Bochum, Germany