Re: Containers package

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <a0p1lr$mbi89$1@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de>, Nick Roberts says...
>write a book). I am going to release it under the LGPL.

The LGPL isn't really all that appropriate to Ada packages. For one thing, it
could be (and has been) argued that instantiation of a generic's code is
inclusion and not simple linking against a library, and thus any user would have
to GPL their code. For another, it actually requires that you provide all
end-users with compilers and any other tools they might need to recompile the
library and relink the program when a new version of the library comes out.

For situations where your code gets copied directly into someone else's object
files (and you don't want that to render their code GPL only), it is generally
suggested that you use something like the license used for Bison (GNU's YACC
clone). See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#CanIUseGPLToolsForNF for a
discussion. Gnat's GMGPL is a license of this ilk.

The LGPL was written for link libraries (eg: "libfoo.a"). It isn't very useful
outside that domain.

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