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: Samuel Tardieu Subject: Re: still Looking for GNAT modified GPL header Date: 1999/03/02 Message-ID: <874so47zgm.fsf@zaphod.enst.fr>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 450360891 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> Mail-Copies-To: sam@ada.eu.org To: nabbasi@pacbell.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.enst.fr X-Trace: enst.enst.fr 920383929 22128 137.194.160.95 (2 Mar 1999 14:12:09 GMT) Organization: TELECOM Paris Keywords: nabbasi,files,unit,executable User-Agent: Gnus/5.070077 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.77) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Mar 1999 14:12:09 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-02T14:12:09+00:00 List-Id: >>>>> "nabbasi" == nabbasi writes: nabbasi> But where is this header that says it is using a modified GPL nabbasi> so I can cut/paste it? 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. Sam -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@ada.eu.org