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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ed Avis Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/29 Message-ID: <3728AAFA.FAD4A827@doc.ic.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 472397050 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7g5cb2$bjn$1@netnews.upenn.edu> <7g7o6d$lrj$1@flotsam.uits.indiana.edu> <925402294.548.49@news.remarQ.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@doc.ic.ac.uk X-Trace: lux.doc.ic.ac.uk 925412090 112 146.169.49.30 (29 Apr 1999 18:54:50 GMT) Organization: Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Apr 1999 18:54:50 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss Date: 1999-04-29T18:54:50+00:00 List-Id: Fraser Wilson wrote: >Ada libraries are commonly distributed with this additional freedom: > >-- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this -- >-- unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, -- >-- this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be -- >-- covered by the GNU General Public License. That seems silly. Why not just distribute them under the LGPL, which is basically the GPL with the above exception built in? -- Ed Avis