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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a6975ef46c052458 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Runtime versions (GPL vs Modified GPL) Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <0b115c04-ead8-4cec-8867-94ca9632a5b9@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: <4tFXj.218869$D_3.40789@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net> Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 18:28:16 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.64.66.182 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1211048896 12.64.66.182 (Sat, 17 May 2008 18:28:16 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 18:28:16 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:173 Date: 2008-05-17T18:28:16+00:00 List-Id: First, the orginal poster does not want to use the GPL. And the GNAT GPL is under the GPL. As publish in the spring of 2007, the GNAT PRO was $14_000 per year. The "special exception" clause allows the programmer to use GNAT acadamic or GPL to develope the software under a compatable GPL license or the LGPL which is still apart of the GPL license structure. Or they can develope the software using GNAT and then use GNAT PRO, Green hil, etc. Ada to compile the release binary version under another license. In , "Steve" writes: >"anon" wrote in message >news:LTmXj.345584$cQ1.268308@bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... >> All programs that are compiled with GNU components are force to GPL 2 >> or 3. >> >> Explained in a number of web sites, such as Adacore. You must use GNAT >> that come with the GMGPL (GNAT modified GPL). These are limited to >> Ada 95 versions compiled and packaged back in the mid 1990s or use the >> pay version (GNAT PRO). Most archived versions have been updated to >> GPL 2 and GPL 3. Which mean that GNAT Ada 95 and at the movement all >> Ada 2005 compilers (GNAT only) are under GPL 2 or 3, which mean your >> code must be under GPL. >> > >This is misinformation. > >If you browse the source code repository on gcc.org at: > svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk/gcc/ada/a-textio.ads > >In the file header you will find: > >-- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from >this -- >-- unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an >executable, -- >-- this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to > be -- >-- covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does >not -- >-- however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might >be -- >-- covered by the GNU Public > -- > >This "special exception" is what makes the code at the FSF (free software >foundataion) covered by the GMGPL (GNAT modified GPL). > >My understanding is: > If you want to use GNAT to generate code that is not covered by the GPL >you must either: > a) Pay AdaCore a bunch of $$$ for GnatPro whis is supported (very well I >understand) > -or- > b) Obtain a distribution from a source other than AdaCore that is built >using the FSF sources, which is certainly not supported by AdaCore. > -or- > c) Completely avoid the use of any Ada run time libraries (which is >difficult if not impossible to do), in which case you could use the GnatGPL >edition from AdaCore. > > If you don't care about whether the generated code is covered by teh GPL >you may use the GnatGPL edition distributed from AdaCore. ERROR! ERROR!! ERROR!! GNAT GPL is unser the GPL version 2. > >Regards, >Steve >(The Duck) > > >> To know for sure, read the 'license.txt' that comes with GNAT package. >> >> In <0b115c04-ead8-4cec-8867-94ca9632a5b9@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, >> "jhc0033@gmail.com" writes: >>>If I install GNAT from Cygwin or my Linux distribution, as part of >>>GCC, is there any way to know for sure which version of the runtime >>>it's using? I wouldn't want to use the one that forces me to GPL my >>>own code. >> > >