From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.46.165.242.75.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Luke A. Guest" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Janus Ada 1.5 Ada cp/m manuals Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 10:28:02 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: gioia.aioe.org; logging-data="52806"; posting-host="Lx7EM+81f32E0bqku+QpCA.user.gioia.aioe.org"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@aioe.org"; User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 Content-Language: en-GB X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.2 Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:62508 List-Id: On 17/08/2021 10:16, Luke A. Guest wrote: >> BTW, since RRS still exists and never made a public version for any >> version >> of Janus/Ada (including the CP/M versions) -- because all of the versions >> are derived from the same original source and it is likely that some >> of the >> compiler still survives from those versions) -- using it without a >> license >> is technically infringing. I don't think there is much chance that anyone >> would try to stop non-commercial use, but I would suggest getting >> legal if >> anything commercial is involved. (And yes, we periodically get >> requests for >> help with it from users that I would have expected to have moved on long >> ago.) > > Seriously? Even Caldera released CP/M tot he public and Amstrad released > the source to the Spectrum ROM's. Having an official public release would be good for historical reasons. Having the source would be even better, for curios like me who have been wondering how old 8-bit compilers worked.