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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: dewar at gnat dot com (Robert Dewar)
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 08:43:39 -0700
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu
- Reply-To: law at redhat dot com
In message <20001102153715.911A334D82@nile.gnat.com>you write:
> <<Why should it surprise you that one of our customers wanted a completely
> revamped ia32 backend which was geared towards supporting PII/PIII cores
> in a sane manner and didn't want anyone to know about it before the work
> was complete?
> >>
>
> As I say, we never ever tolerate NDA's that cover GPL'ed code in any
> form, it is one of our strong corporate policies. It is one thing to
> have a general agreement that development will not be released till
> it is in reasonable shape (something that often makes sense anyway),
> and quite another to have a formal NDA prohibiting distribution.
Well, it appears that Red Hat and ACT have different policies on this kind
of thing.
jeff
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