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

[Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt>]

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:

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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.

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

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.
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