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From: Dale Stanbrough <dale@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
Subject: Re: gnat-3.10
Date: 1997/06/25
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Richard Kenner writes:

">So, if any part of my program contains any part (or derivation of)
 >their program, I have two choices:
 >1. Distribute my program "as a whole" under the terms of the GPL
 >2. Don't distribute my program.
 
 That's correct and exactly the status of the resulting work.  If you
 want to continue to view your code as proprietary, then you have two
 different copyright terms for pieces of the code and the only way to
 satisfy both is not to distribute the work at all."


...and there I think is a major issue that needs explaining (to me at
least!).
What does "contains" mean? If I write a GUI front end for Gnat, does that
constitute containment? I could distributed it separately, and have it just
make system calls to Gnat? What about a program that is linked to some of the
GNAT parser routines? What about a system that dynamically loads Gnat in as
a 
DLL? Is the calling convention what determines the "contains" relationship?


Dale ?:-/