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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@baesystems.com>
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Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:35:40 +0100
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Martin Dowie wrote:
> Indeed this is what GNU suggest in the COPYING.txt file that comes
> with GNAT:
>
>    "This General Public License does not permit incorporating your
> program into
>    proprietary programs.  If your program is a subroutine library,
>    you may consider it more useful to permit linking proprietary
> applications with the
>    library.  If this is what you want to do, use the GNU Library
>    General Public License instead of this License."

More over, from the GNAT RM, section on "pragma License":

"Modified_GPL This is used for a unit licensed under the GNAT modified GPL
that includes a special exception paragraph that specifically permits the
inclusion of the unit in programs without requiring the entire program to be
released under the GPL. This is the license used for the GNAT run-time which
ensures that the run-time can be used freely in any program without GPL
concerns."

file:///C:/GNAT/doc/gnat/html/gnat_rm_2.html#SEC53

So, which one is it?!?!?! :-)

Cheers

-- Martin