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From: Al Christians <achrist@easystreet.com>
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Subject: Re: Problem with GNAT modified GPL and SourceForge
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 19:53:17 -0800
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Ted Dennison wrote:
> 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.
>

If some brain-dead user (say, for example, someone like me) just writes 
and compiles some Ada with gnatmake and gets an execuatable (eg for 
Windows), is he yet (as of 3.14p) pretty safe in figuring that the 
executable falls under the exception? Is there any library code that 
doesn't follow the exception?  Will the answer to this change with the 
new GNAT versions that are more closely integrated with the rest of 
gcc?  

TIA for any info.


Al