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: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer1.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126774252.966025.283640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126774578.526509.159960@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2202138.fOMkUmLaHt@linux1.krischik.com> <87zmqe855m.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> <87ll1ucs1e.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> <87psr58p8w.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <3VEXe.146639$dP1.503250@newsc.telia.net> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 20:08:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1127160511 217.209.116.179 (Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:08:31 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 22:08:31 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4923 Date: 2005-09-19T20:08:31+00:00 List-Id: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen wrote: > So in principle, I could package my non-GPL-compatible (possibly > encrypted) program source with the GNAT GPL 2005 and run an automated > install script at the user's computer which would install GNAT, then > compile and link the program, effectively installing a binary version? > Maybe even throw away the source (and GNAT) afterwards, since > technically, the user has compiled the program from sources himself? No. Then you would have created an installer based on Gnat. I'm fairly sure the package as a whole would be considered a work based in part on Gnat, so that those copies of your code that were distributed in that package would have to be placed under the GPL. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu