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Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- To: Richard Kenner <kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: Why not gnat Ada in gcc?
- From: "John P. Pietrzak" <john at pietrzak dot org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:33:28 -0500 (EST)
- cc: rth at cygnus dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Richard Kenner wrote:
> But _I_ am not imposing any further restrictions. You did not sign an
> NDA with me. As far as I am concerned you can do anything with it
> that you want.
>
> In that case you are violating the NDA! You can't do this without
> violating one or the other. If you give it to a third party without
> saying it's under the NDA ("a further restriction" and thus not permitted
> by the GPL), you are violating the NDA.
>
Well, that sounds like the solution to the problem, then. What you've got
here is a case of people following the rules of the GPL, violating their
NDA, and not having the NDA enforced against them. So long as no-one
enforces the NDA, what's the problem?
--John