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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,30a9bb3017fa58dd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,959627a08fbc77c5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public From: Russ Allbery Subject: Re: GNAT versions ( was :Ada compiler for PC?) Date: 1999/04/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 470314559 References: <3718ccb6.3581307@news.mindspring.com> <3718d384.254178@news.pacbell.net> <1999Apr20.073527.1@eisner> <7fi2k3$lv9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371C99DD.F15ADC4B@spam.com> <7fkkoi$ui$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371DF7CE.C7D7C1F@spam.com> <1999Apr21.142617.1@eisner> <371E2F2A.662C8F4F@spam.com> <7fndu7$im4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <371F8B02.9BD7045F@spam.com> <7fomsh$p8u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <86lnfjx5rx.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> <7fq3mh$16m1@news1.newsguy.com> <86n1zz43dt.fsf@coulee.tdb.com> Organization: The Eyrie Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-04-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In gnu.misc.discuss, Russell Senior writes: > It has been noted that all of the GNAT releases (or snapshots or > whatever you'd like to call them) are GPL'd and that recipients are > legally entitled to share these with others. It has further been noted > that recipients of the `non-public' releases tend not to share them with > others, despite their legal right to do so. I am curious to know what > goes into their calculus for deciding not to. Well, I can't speak for all the people who make that decision, but my personal answer to such a question would be "simple politeness." If someone gives me something to test and tells me it's not ready for general redistribution, I would tend to respect their wishes unless I had some good reason not to. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)