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

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> Mind the "buts" after the short answers.
> 
>> 1) are stutends allowed to take copy home?
> 
> Yes. But under the same terms.
> 
>> 2) are you allowed to put a copy on the public ftp server for studend to
>> download?
> 
> Yes. But "Public" would be unwise. For students yes, but I think I
> become responsible for enforcing the terms of the contract upon them.
> 
>> 3) would I be allowed to download from there for extra curriculum
>> studies?
> 
> No. If you're not a member or the "studies" are not "academic and
> teaching purposes" then I don't think so. Analyze the relevant clauses
> of the contract yourself:
> 
> <<
> 1.    AdaCore contributes binary releases containing the GNAT toolset (with
> Ada 2005, C, C++ compilers) along with the GPS IDE, as well as source
> releases for glade, polyorb, gtkada, asis, aws, xml/Ada, florist.

Apart from the asis, florist florist sources there is nothing here which we
can't have anyway. Compiling the compiler is not that difficult. A GPS
binary was given away as chrismas present from AdaCore. The other sources
for the others packages all available at the libre cvs server
(:pserver:anoncvs@libre.act-europe.fr:/anoncvs, GLADE has been silently
added a few month ago, just get yourself a side wide cvs snapshot).

The only thing wich supprises me: Ada 2005?!?!

> 3.    Members agree to use the material contributed to this site [1] for
> academic and teaching purposes only.

Well self teaching is teaching.

> 4.    Each registered GAP Community member has the possibility to enroll
> any member of their institution via the Administration feature of the
> web service.  The registered member will ensure that other users agree
> to the conditions of this agreement.

I see, I would have to enrol in your university.

>  >>

At least we know know how it works. Nothing less fruitless then discussing
when you havn't got the facts right.

Martin
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