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Subject: Re: Ada-WinRT bindings - Alpha release
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On Saturday, April 14, 2018 at 5:13:37 PM UTC+10, Simon Wright wrote:
> alby.gamper@gmail.com writes:
> 
> > I am happy to change the licensing of the bindings to LGPL and will do
> > so over the weekend.
> 
> There are clearly different arguments to be made here, but since GCC has
> deprecated the LGPL and instead allowed people who want to build
> proprietary software using GCC (and, therefore, the necessary included
> runtimes) by applying the GCC Runtime Library Exception[1] to their
> libraries[2], I follow their example [3].
> 
> [1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception
> [2] https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/master/libgcc/dfp-bit.c#L16
> [3] https://github.com/simonjwright/cortex-gnat-rts/blob/master/common/environment_task.adb#L11

Thank you all for you valued comments regarding licensing, However!

I believe we are getting somewhat off topic, wrt licensing. Lets as a 
community, (both LGPL development and GPL team's) contribute to what is
essentially a very small piece of technology that assist in making Ada as a
language more accessible to mainstream environments (very subjective) targeting
Microsoft Windows.

Alex