From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Subject: Re: Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes in GNAT & its GCC-contained runtime en masse from GNAT GPL Community Edition?
Date: Fri, 4 May 2018 17:22:48 -0000 (UTC)
Date: 2018-05-04T17:22:48+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pci4t8$uir$1@dont-email.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 45cb0937-7da0-4b14-aa6c-19d1db133dde@googlegroups.com
On 2018-05-04, Dan'l Miller <optikos@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Friday, May 4, 2018 at 11:20:30 AM UTC-5, Mark Lorenzen wrote:
>> You buy a support contract for a maximum number of developers based on the "honour system"
>> i.e. you don't cheat.
>
> I am pretty sure that RMS would not consider the software-freedom rights overtly & meticulously granted under the wording of the GMGPL as ?cheating?.
Note that he said "support contract", not software. That's what is being
sold here if I understand correctly.
Simon.
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2018-05-03 19:13 Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes in GNAT & its GCC-contained runtime en masse from GNAT GPL Community Edition? Dan'l Miller
2018-05-03 20:22 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-03 21:17 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-03 21:42 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-03 22:02 ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-03 22:23 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-04 12:35 ` Simon Clubley
2018-05-04 14:33 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-04 16:20 ` Mark Lorenzen
2018-05-04 16:57 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-04 17:22 ` Simon Clubley [this message]
2018-05-04 18:39 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-04 17:42 ` Simon Clubley
2018-05-04 18:01 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-05 12:50 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-05-07 1:06 ` Simon Clubley
2018-05-04 16:29 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-04 17:25 ` Simon Clubley
2018-05-05 12:44 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-05-05 14:19 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-05 15:58 ` Lucretia
2018-05-05 18:51 ` Niklas Holsti
2018-05-05 19:30 ` Luke A. Guest
2018-05-05 19:04 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-08 21:17 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-05 21:44 ` Adacore French connection J-P. Rosen
2018-05-05 21:46 ` Precisely why can't official FSF GNAT maintainers copy bug fixes in GNAT & its GCC-contained runtime en masse from GNAT GPL Community Edition? Simon Wright
2018-05-06 16:37 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2018-05-04 19:53 ` antispam
2018-05-04 20:35 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-04 21:46 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-04 22:00 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-03 21:48 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-03 21:50 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-03 22:06 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-04 7:36 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-04 16:45 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-04 16:58 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-04 11:55 ` Brian Drummond
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