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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/17/2013 4:53 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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?

No.

GPL is supposed to prevent anyone having a binary of the code (general
open source) or something "linked" with it (GPL specific) without being
able to get the source and modify it or redistribute it.

But nothing in OSI definition or GPL force them to distribute
binaries to anyone besides those they want to.

It is generally not a big problem as OSI definition/GPL allows
those that receive the binary to redistribute binary and source
if they want to.

Typical there will always be someone that want to redistribute.

But Ada on OpenVMS may be a relative small club with limited
interest in open source principles.

Arne