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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,776a7f0c329d226e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.agarik.com!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Marius Amado Alves Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Isnt Gnat irrelevant ? ( was Re: Will the World ever seesomethingbeyond GNAT 3.15p?) Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:31:19 +0000 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <41e503af_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <41e52252$1_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <10ubu795m26ddf1@corp.supernews.com> <41e64436_1@baen1673807.greenlnk.net> <1711413.SSJOl95tSF@linux1.krischik.com> <87wtuhi6qk.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87u0pjq4cm.fsf@insalien.org> <87mzvbpr56.fsf@insalien.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1105785062 81327 212.85.156.195 (15 Jan 2005 10:31:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 10:31:02 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2005 10:30:48.0922 (UTC) FILETIME=[47A22BA0:01C4FAED] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7799 Date: 2005-01-15T10:31:19+00:00 >>I thought that had been established. Yes, the contract restricts use for >>academic purposes only. > > So is that a way around the GPL then? Just stipulate in your contract that > they cannot do anything with it? Is that even legal? Nobody knows. You made my point. This is a legal conundrum, and we close our eyes in order to get going. My additional point was that all open source is in similar chaos. More discussion at http://softdevelcoop.org