[Info-vax] GCC for VMS, was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kkmqqa$rr3$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> On 2013-04-17, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> The last version of gcc I met for VMS was very old.  Specifically went 
>> looking for gcc for inclusion on the last Freeware, too.
>>
> 
> Ada Core Technologies (ACT) maintains a port of gcc for it's VMS Ada
> customers. The source code was not freely available however the last
> time I looked (several years ago) because at that time they were
> exercising the option in the GPL which allows them to distribute it
> to their customers only 

And wasn't that specifically what the Gnu Public Virus was supposed to
prevent?

>                          and none of those customers had redistributed
> it when I last checked.
> 

bill

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