From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0f6c37e3c1b712a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed01.chello.at!newsfeed02.chello.at!news.hispeed.ch.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <1244422.yFQ0DYx6Pb@linux1.krischik.com> From: Martin Krischik Subject: Re: AdaCore ... the Next SCO? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:07:58 +0200 References: <1151405920.523542.137920@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <1151413996.881418.65260@x69g2000cwx.googlegroups.com> <2418185.2jO2KLhFBO@linux1.krischik.com> <1151431127.2179.20.camel@localhost> <1151480714.730898.137230@d56g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@hispeed.ch Organization: hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.218.119.160 (80.218.119.160) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:15:12 +0200 X-Trace: 7898044a40aa0f57fd20501887 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:5298 Date: 2006-06-29T19:07:58+02:00 List-Id: M E Leypold wrote: > > "Martin Krischik" writes: > >> Simon Wright wrote: >> > Since the BCs don't use the non-standard pragma License (Licence?) the >> > question doesn't arise. And given this discussion they are not going >> > to. >> >> In the absence of pragma License GNAT scans the commens for magic words >> which indicate the lincence used ;-) . As it is the BC will be >> considered GMGPL by GNAT. But since no GNAT specific packages are used >> no licence warnings are issued. > > If if there would be: I do not grok it: Linking GMGPL with GPL > libraries should put the excutable under GPL, but the GMGPL part of > the source would still be under GMGPL, wouldn't it? Why the license > warnings then with GNAT specific units? Because Ada support "rename" - the GMGPL package could pass thru GPL licensed stuff. The Linux-Kernel Guys are really pissed of by many companies circumventing the GPL by modules containing basicly: void x () { y(); } Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com