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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d72dc559169a2d4d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nabbasi@pacbell.net Subject: Re: still Looking for GNAT modified GPL header Date: 1999/03/02 Message-ID: <7bgtgl$jpa@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 450387568 References: <7be4kn$6rc@drn.newsguy.com> <7beicd$pop$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7bepgc$mls@drn.newsguy.com> <7bg8vm$i43$1@cf01.edf.fr> <7bgeqg$qji@drn.newsguy.com> <874so47zgm.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr> Organization: Newsguy News Service [http://www.newsguy.com] Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <874so47zgm.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>, Samuel says... > >In Ada.Tags, as you wrote ;-) (for example) > >The key point is this special paragraph: > >-- 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 License. -- > >Note that this part is present only for GNAT *runtime* files, not GNAT >compiler files. oh, OK :) I would never have guessed. (All this legal mumble jumble is foreign to me, I just a programmer.) But I'll change my getopt package and add the above stuff to its header. thanks! Nasser