From: M E Leypold <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>
Subject: Re: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...
Date: 28 Jun 2006 03:55:34 +0200
Date: 2006-06-28T03:55:34+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y48xnijb6x.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zmfymeih.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> writes:
> "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.not.jrcarter@acm.not.spam.org> writes:
> > It's also clear that ACT cannot legally impose the GPL on their
> > compilers the way they have. The DOD contract that resulted in GNAT
> > was to create an Ada-95 compiler that is free (in both senses of the
> > word) and may be used to create un-free programs. (These requirements
> > resulted in the GMGPL.) As there is no Ada-0X standard yet, there can
> > be no Ada-0X compilers yet, and in fact the ACT GPL compilers are
> > Ada-95 compilers that implement some of the features of the Ada-0X
> > draft only as an option. It seems ACT is calling them "200[5|6]" to
> > try to get around the requirements of the contract, but it's clear
> > that these are Ada-95 compilers with some extra features optionally
> > available, and so in violation of the contract. (I wonder who at the
> > DOD one would contact about this, since the AJPO no longer exists.)
> >
> > Of course, IANAL.
>
> What if the contract had a fixed term, and has now expired?
> Conjectures, hypotheses and speculation.
What if it didn't? Me thinks the expiry date was "when there is no Ada
95 anymore in Gnat".
Regards .. Markus
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2006-06-19 1:05 can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions klobert
2006-06-19 8:32 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-19 9:24 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-19 10:29 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-19 11:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-22 23:08 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-23 8:22 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-23 17:24 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 0:08 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-24 10:01 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 11:32 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 12:04 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 13:16 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 15:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 17:43 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 18:27 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 19:26 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 19:45 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 19:47 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 23:16 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-25 11:48 ` M E Leypold
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2006-06-24 21:07 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-25 17:50 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-06-25 18:47 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-25 20:49 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 11:04 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-26 12:19 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 12:39 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-26 13:46 ` M E Leypold
[not found] ` <n1nu92praahokl5ev7ih75j9f2t09hugt8@4ax.com>
2006-06-26 12:08 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 18:35 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-06-26 19:29 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 20:31 ` community supported Ada environment (was: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...) Björn Persson
2006-06-26 19:01 ` can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-26 19:50 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 20:09 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-27 22:15 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 1:55 ` M E Leypold [this message]
2006-06-28 19:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 1:54 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 2:12 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28 2:48 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 21:10 ` Teaching languages (was: can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions...) Björn Persson
2006-06-26 21:39 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 18:58 ` can one build commercial applications with latest gnat and other licenses related questions Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-26 19:33 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:03 ` Pascal Obry
2006-06-27 19:29 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 19:34 ` Pascal Obry
2006-06-27 19:57 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 20:12 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 22:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-27 22:44 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 9:41 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 12:44 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 18:35 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:40 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 5:55 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-27 22:35 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 22:34 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 22:33 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 19:40 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-27 22:49 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-28 2:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28 5:53 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-28 12:46 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-29 20:14 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-30 8:20 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-30 12:47 ` Marc A. Criley
2006-07-01 2:20 ` Steve
2006-07-01 8:54 ` M E Leypold
2006-07-01 9:56 ` Pascal Obry
2006-07-01 12:03 ` Michael Bode
2006-07-01 12:48 ` Pascal Obry
2006-07-01 13:19 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-28 19:18 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2006-06-28 22:35 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-27 7:26 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2006-06-27 8:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2006-06-27 10:51 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2006-06-28 19:03 ` Niklas Holsti
2006-06-28 19:42 ` Ludovic Brenta
2006-06-28 22:34 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-25 11:55 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-24 11:41 ` Jeffrey Creem
2006-06-24 12:38 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-24 13:11 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 14:13 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-25 21:28 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-25 21:42 ` M E Leypold
2006-06-26 15:59 ` Martin Krischik
2006-06-24 12:58 ` Michael Bode
2006-06-24 13:21 ` Georg Bauhaus
2006-06-24 14:39 ` M E Leypold
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2006-06-25 11:22 ` Samuel Tardieu
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2006-06-24 21:37 ` Michael Bode
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2006-06-24 13:27 ` M E Leypold
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2006-06-25 21:09 ` Simon Wright
2006-06-25 21:31 ` M E Leypold
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