Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO?

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 18:38 +0200, Martin Krischik wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> >  The change of
> > license has no effect on corporations large enough to use GNAT Pro, or
> > on students, hobbyists, or free software developers.
> 
> Does it? The GPL is viral

A virus doesn't need to be accepted, in general.
Usually you catch a cold, your not establishing a
contract with influenza. A license is different.


>  and booch, charles, AdaCL - all currently GMGPL
> would need to to relicensed to GPL now to be used with with GNAT/GPL.

I don't think that any GMGPL sources need to be relicensed
to be used with GNAT GPL Edition for free software work.
The GMGPL is certainly GPL compatible.
Even if you run into a pragma License(some invalid identifier),
you just create a derivative work by placing '--' before the
pragma. Just make sure that the result, if distributed, is
distributed as required by the GPL.


> And this would mean that those libs become unavailable to closed source
> users.

But that's a consequence of using GNAT GPL edition, not of using
the libraries? These can keep their licenses. (The GPL doesn't say
it is time limited, and revocable; I'd be surprised to learn that
the exception is time limited.)