From: Preben Randhol <randhol+news@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: Conflicting statements about GPS?
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:58:46 +0000 (UTC)
Date: 2002-10-19T10:58:46+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnar2emk.2cj.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
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John Stoneham wrote:
> I am, surely like most on this ng who use gnat, eagerly awaiting the
> any-week-now release of GPS. However, after combing through what I could
> find as "official" statements about it (mainly from Robert Dewar), I have
> become concerned. One statement clearly emphasised that GPS was "Free
> Software", which would benefit from the input of many users, and this raised
> my hopes. But the only statements regarding it's release that I could find
> referred to those using Gnat Pro, which is not free.
It is Free but not gratis (no cost) as it is supported software. I'm
only hoping that there will be a public release (gratis, not supported)
later of GPS like they do with the Gnat compiler.
> to paying customers. Nor do I think it proper to call it "Free
> Software" if it is only intended to be offered for free after a major
> upgrade to the paying customers, and the "free" part is the old
> version made freely available after a year or more. But maybe that's
> just me.
Yes I think so. Read on the definition of Free Software at http://www.fsf.org/
Preben
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-19 2:46 Conflicting statements about GPS? John Stoneham
2002-10-19 8:12 ` Samuel Tardieu
2002-10-19 10:58 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2002-10-19 15:08 ` John Stoneham
2002-10-19 15:34 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-21 7:06 ` Karel Miklav
2002-10-21 7:44 ` Preben Randhol
2002-10-21 17:36 ` Mark Johnson
2002-10-21 18:13 ` tmoran
2002-10-22 4:42 ` Dale Stanbrough
2002-10-22 17:24 ` Pascal Obry
2002-10-22 21:46 ` Stephen Leake
2002-10-22 22:07 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-10-23 1:30 ` Jeffrey Creem
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