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,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!llslave.llan.ll.mit.edu!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Debian: most libraries will switch to the pure GPL in Etch References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1151436486.2179.48.camel@localhost> <1151438973.2179.67.camel@localhost> <44a2d0ea$0$29127$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> In-Reply-To: <44a2d0ea$0$29127$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:28:06 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 155.34.132.133 X-Complaints-To: news@ll.mit.edu X-Trace: llslave.llan.ll.mit.edu 1151522963 155.34.132.133 (Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:29:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:29:23 EDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5238 Date: 2006-06-28T15:28:06-04:00 List-Id: Georg Bauhaus wrote: >> Folks, Georg was only kidding. > > Well, not really. The URL https://gnu.microsoft.com/free_software/windows_nt/src does not currently appear to be up. I just assumed it was a joke. If it wasn't, I humbly apologize. Out of curiosity, if this was a real site, what source files did it offer? >> We will have to wait a *long* time to see "gnu" and "Microsoft" in the >> same URL. > > Though, > http://www.microsoft.com/spain/sharedsource/Articles/GNU.mspx > > From the XEN laboratory at U of Cambridge: > "A port of Windows XP was developed for an earlier version of Xen, > but is not available for release due to licence restrictions." > > Seems to me a word with those whose software you are using is > always a way. I'd prefer this to arguing about license headers, > and I guess that most compiler shops will prefer a simple, quiet, > reasonable deal, too. > Wouldn't they know what software production is about? One would hope!