Re: New open source UML tool including Ada support

[Markus E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

> On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:38 -0700, dave.wood@aonix.com wrote:
>
>> The OpenAmeos sources and LGPL license agreement will appear "soon" on
>> the OpenAmeos.org web site. Please enjoy your free software, and free
>> sources, which follow many, many years of hard work by many talented
>> engineers.
>
> Indeed, the software has made me see the tools again that I
> once had an opportunity to evaluate (as StP/UML). I'd like to point
> out that Ameos has a number of features not usually present
> in UML tools. Among these are linking parts of specification
> documents to parts of the model and performing model checks.

Cool, absolutely cool. 

Does anybody know how well specified the intermediate format is,
i.e. how difficult it would be to write backends for other languages?

> IIRC, code generation is/was based on a template mechanism (these
> were updated/reworked/... some time ago).

That sounds as if it would be easy (well, comparably to developing a
UML tool from scratch).

> FWIW, the license text can be read now by performing an
> installation of the software.

Ah good. But am I right in supposing it's at the moment a
dont-redistribute-License?

Regards -- Markus


PS: To forstall the question "why don't you just install it?": I
    haven't got the time at the moment and -- as always with me --
    it's essential that it runs with Linux: I hardly ever evaluate
    Windows-only software just out of curiosity (i.e. if there is no
    project which would profit immediately from the software).