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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,5efeb51ce0b50b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Alex R. Mosteo" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 19:16:08 +0200 Message-ID: <43285AD8.5090903@mailinator.com> References: <1126619435.487674.77550@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net f1HG0vf/SZQdZslm4RCjWQ7YKt43LPimDWy8a/cYGrRiXs7DI= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4670 Date: 2005-09-14T19:16:08+02:00 List-Id: Martin Dowie wrote: > Jeffrey Carter wrote: > >> Also, Ada programs link in an Ada run time library. If the run time >> library is GPL, then the resulting program is GPL. All existing public >> GNAT releases from AdaCore have had an exception on the run time library. >> >> One could always use another implementation of the standard library, >> but another version of the run time library is a bit more difficult. >> >> Probably there is no problem, and AdaCore's public releases will still >> be able to produce non-GPL programs. Even if AdaCore decides to remove >> the exemption from the run time library for its public releases, we >> still have the GCC versions, which we can reasonably expect to adhere >> to the goals of the GCC project, which include being able to produce >> non-GPL programs. > > Well, it's there now - so let's all go and find out! :-) It seems they've changed tracks.