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: 103376,9a5f3bd162009c01 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!atl-c08.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!pc02.usenetserver.com!ALLTEL.NET-a2kHrUvQQWlmc!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:46:48 -0500 From: "Marc A. Criley" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005: Too clever by half? References: <70e0e$4331acfc$4995583$14979@ALLTEL.NET> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <28319$4332b5a4$4995090$10623@ALLTEL.NET> X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com X-Trace: 283194332b5a4a13cf53510623 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5033 Date: 2005-09-22T08:46:48-05:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > I mean you can of course put whatever license on you uncompiled code, > but if you want to compile it with GNAT GPL 2005 you must change to GPL > as far as I understand. Just a minor point: It's not the compiling, it's linking with the runtime library, or using any of the vendor (g-*) packages; and the instantiation exception to the GPL (such as for Integer_IO) has been removed. Marc