Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) schrieb:
> Hello all of you,
> 
> The Ada 2005 compiler, GNAT GPS licence states that this compiler
> cannot be used for commercial applications (if I'm not wrong).

(Is there an emoticon for IANAL?)

Just like with Microsoft's open and closed source software, the
license text states conditions for using the licensed
software, commercially or otherwise.
It is possible to use GPL software commercially, even with
version 3 of the GPL.  When you want to distribute binaries
derived from GPLed source, for commercial or other reasons,
without also making available what is required to be available
by the GPL, things are different.

> The
> MinGW compiler suite licence give access to create commercial
> applications (if I'm still not wrong).

The MinGW compilers' licensing may be with a special exception.
Roughly speaking, do not change a line of code and distribution
of your derived work will only depend on what it depends considering
the licenses of all works used in your program.  Thess might include
Microsoft's redistributables etc.