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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!bos-service1.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.ray.com.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126868191.519850.18060@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <873bo5jjb6.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> In-Reply-To: <873bo5jjb6.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:44:26 -0700 NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.24.111.90 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.ray.com 1126885467 147.24.111.90 (Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:44:27 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:44:27 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4801 Date: 2005-09-16T08:44:26-07:00 List-Id: Samuel Tardieu wrote: > > Do you think that the DoD (the funder of the early GNAT versions) > intent was to restrict the use of GNAT to programs using the GPL > license and to AdaCore (which didn't exist) customers? The DOD program that resulted in GNAT was created specifically to build a freely-available compiler that could be used to create proprietary SW. The issue of the run time, including parts of the run time that might be added to a program by instantiating a generic, are why NYU's lawyers came up with the GMGPL in the first place. Until recently public GNAT releases from AdaCore filled this requirement. More recently, the GCC/FSF GNAT has been filling it, and many here seem to be happy using the GCC 3.4 and 4.0 versions of GNAT. AdaCore said some time ago that they had transferred the public version of GNAT to the GCC/FSF effort, so I didn't expect to see any further public versions from them. This release simply muddies the water, increasing the number of types of releases by 1 (paid/supported, academic, public/general, and now, public/GPL-only). -- Jeffrey Carter "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time." Monty Python and the Holy Grail E-mail: jeffrey_r_carter-nr [commercial-at] raytheon [period | full stop] com