Re: Gnat 3.09 NT - Legal issues

[fjh@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson)]

dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote:

>jonas asks
>
><<Can I be sure that ANY program I produce with Gnat 3.09 for NT/Win95 will
>not contain parts governed by the rules of LGPL. The Gnat license states
>that the inclusion of any library code does not fall under the terms of
>LGPL, but how do I know that there has not been included any code from
>the libraries provided by Cygnus (Gnu) in my application.
>
>Well someone always likes to raise FUD on this issue from time to time :-)
>There are no problems in this regard. No LGPL'ed or otherwise problematic
>code is included in your generated executables. 

People do often like to raise FUD about GPL issues, but in this case
I'm not yet completely convinced that it is FUD.

If the code generated by GNAT for NT/Win95 using cynwin32 really doesn't 
include any of the libcygwin.a code, could you perhaps explain to us
how (technically speaking) you avoided that?

(Or do I have to download the source and figure it out myself? ;-)

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