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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,351835e570c46e8b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-10-19 03:58:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!news.algonet.se!algonet!newsfeed1.bredband.com!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Conflicting statements about GPS? Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:58:46 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1035025126 11961 129.241.83.78 (19 Oct 2002 10:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 10:58:46 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:29938 Date: 2002-10-19T10:58:46+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- This is Ada land. On quiet nights you can hear C programmers debug.