Re: Isnt Gnat irrelevant ? ( was Re: Will the World ever seesomethingbeyond GNAT 3.15p?)

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Martin Krischik:
> 
>>> The GAP release comes with *all* AdaCore tools and add-ons, including
>>> ASIS, AUnit, AWS, GLADE, GtkAda, PolyORB, and XML/Ada, but also (and
>>> of course) the compiler and the debugger, and GPS ..
>>
>> It's GPL: Can't we find a Studend who makes a copy into the public ftp
>> server of his univerity?
> 
> In general, you aren't allowed to do this even with supposedly GPLed
> software.  The GPL doesn't give you this right.

Quote from the GNAT Source:

|GNAT is free software;  you can  redistribute it  and/or modify it under
|terms of the  GNU General Public License as published  by the Free Soft
|ware  Foundation;  either version 2,  or (at your option) any later ver-
|sion.  GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH-

Quote of the GPL:

|You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the Program's source code as
|you receive it, in any medium, provided that you conspicuously and
|appropriately publish on each copy an appropriate copyright notice and 
|disclaimer of warranty; keep intact all th e notices that refer to this 
|License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any other recipients
|of the Program a copy of this License along with the Program. You may
|charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at 
|your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.       

And:

|You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under 
|Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1
|and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:   

So, why do you think it is not allowed to copy a GAP release to an ftp
Server for public access? 

Martin
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