Re: GNAT GPL Edition Maintenance and Upgrades

["Hyman Rosen" <hyman.rosen@gmail.com>]

Jeffrey R. Carter wrote:
> But if I create an application using my GMGPL code
> and the GNAT GPL compiler, my program (and all of
> its source code) must become GPL, and I am not allowed
> to be "super-unselfish".

That's not true. When you distribute your sources along
with your binary, there is nothing stopping you from adding
that special exemption to the license for your own code.
Then the people to whom you have distributed can build an
executable using your code and distribute it to others
without giving them the source to your code, just as you
would like them to be able to do. It just means that they
can't do it using the GNAT GPL compiler.

> Thus, I find the GNAT GPL compiler unsuitable for my
> purposes. I consider it inappropriate for any compiler
> to take such choices from me, and for any OS to supply
> such a compiler.

It's unsuitable for people who want to build programs not
bound by the GPL. But it's fine if they want to build such
programs and grant additional exemptions on their own code.