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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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"Marc A. Criley" <mcNOSPAM@mckae.com> writes:
> The licensing of DTraq is being driven by the licensing of the GNAT
> Run-time library.
>
> I made an effort to keep the client instrumentation packages GMGPL (by
> replacing GNAT.Sockets in 3.15p with AdaSockets) so that one could at
> least theoretically use DTraq on non-GPL code.  Frankly I doubt the
> practicality of that, though, since DTraq uses ASIS, which is
> compiler-version specific, so to use the GNAT GPL 2005 version of
> DTraq one would have to compile and build their code with that
> compiler...which would require the code be GPL if it was to be
> distributed.
>
> I haven't acquired GNAT GPL 2006 yet, but I have every expectation
> that it, too, will be GPL.
>
> Continued DTraq development will be for the GNAT GPL 200x compiler
> versions, since those are AdaCore blessed and maintained.  Unless of
> course someone contracts for a GNAT Pro or other version :-)

I have downloaded the sources (not the binaries) of GNAT GPL 2006
Edition and I confirm that ASIS is pure GPL.

In addition, I am preparing a Debian package of ASIS 2006 under pure
GPL.  This is in contrast to the GNAT run-time library and every other
library, which will remain GMGPL.

So, if someone makes a Debian package of DTraq, that will be pure GPL.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.