Re: fyi: getopt package in Ada.

[robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com]

In article <7be4kn$6rc@drn.newsguy.com>,
  nabbasi@pacbell.net wrote:
> for GNAT users, save this file, and do gnatchop on it.
> This will create 3 files. getopt.ads, getopt.adb,
> test_getopt.adb

I am sure that nabassi intends this, but just to point this
out to others, these units are under the GPL, this means
that they CAN NOT be used in other than GPL'ed programs.
This is quite unlike the situation with GNAT libraries
which use a modified GPL permitting their use in any
kinds of program. It also means of course that we cannot
distribute getopt.ads/adb as part of the GNAT library,
which otherwise might be nice to do!

I certainly don't intend this as criticism in the least.
Every author has the absolute right to decide how to
license their copyrighted work, but it is perhaps useful
that people are very aware of the important distinction
here. I often find people for instance who are not aware
that cygwin32 is distributed with similar limitations, and
just assume they can use it in their proprietary programs.



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