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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c887193050c097ce X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-07 17:14:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.elcjn1.sdca.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C632525.9080001@telepath.com> From: Ted Dennison User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.7) Gecko/20011221 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge References: <3C625604.1C948A06@gmx.de> <3C6312FF.D2FABFC5@easystreet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2002 01:14:26 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.12.51.201 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.elcjn1.sdca.home.com 1013130866 68.12.51.201 (Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:14:26 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:14:26 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19746 Date: 2002-02-08T01:14:26+00:00 List-Id: Al Christians wrote: > Not to start a lot of chaos over licensing, but when I installed GNAT > 3.14p the other day, I didn't see any exception to GPL in the license > that came up as part of the install procedure (under Win NT). Is it > there? I do see the exception in the source code for library units, Its only there for some parts of Gnat, not for the whole thing. If you are hoping to use large parts of the compiler itself in a project, then you will have to use GPL. The units with exceptions in them are mostly user packages (and I think some bits of the runtime), not compiler source packages.