Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[John P. Pietrzak]

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