From: "Marius Amado Alves" <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>
To: <comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
Subject: Re: Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:42:47 +0100
Date: 2004-03-29T17:42:47+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.165.1080578556.327.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1080573502.937367@master.nyc.kbcfp.com
> Excuse me, but this is most assuredly *not* "pirating". All versions
> of GNAT, including GNAT pro, are released under the GPL. Indeed it
> could hardly be otherwise, since it is a derived work of GCC. It is
> completely legal, fair, and honest to distribute GNAT Pro to whomever
> you like, and ACT would be in breach of the GPL if they acted to
> disallow such a thing (not that they would, of course).
You may be right, but strictly not for the reason you give. If ACT owns the
copyright to GNAT Pro (which I think they do), they are perfectly entitled
to distribute GNAT Pro under a different license than GPL (which I think
they don't), including one that makes it piracy to give copies to friends.
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-25 22:40 Is 3.15p -still- the latest GNAT 'p' release? Dale Stanbrough
2004-03-25 23:07 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-26 7:53 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-03-26 23:53 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-27 0:02 ` tmoran
2004-03-27 2:50 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-03-27 9:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-27 11:13 ` Jeff C,
2004-03-27 11:51 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-27 21:42 ` Robert I. Eachus
2004-03-27 2:53 ` Steve
2004-03-27 2:56 ` Alexandre E. Kopilovitch
2004-03-29 15:18 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-03-29 16:42 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-03-29 19:04 ` Hyman Rosen
2004-04-01 16:06 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2004-03-26 11:48 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-26 11:54 ` Preben Randhol
2004-03-26 15:03 ` Mark H Johnson
2004-03-27 0:15 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-26 16:08 ` Jano
2004-03-27 13:24 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-27 13:43 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-27 18:50 ` tmoran
2004-03-29 12:23 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-28 20:09 ` Jano
2004-03-26 23:54 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-27 13:34 ` Marin David Condic
2004-03-27 13:54 ` Ludovic Brenta
2004-03-26 22:45 ` Craig Carey
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