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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3e26dfa741e64e5f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!LF.net!news.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition is now available Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 17:30:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87ll1ucs1e.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> References: <432919be$0$10539$4d4eb98e@read.news.fr.uu.net> <1126774252.966025.283640@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1126774578.526509.159960@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <2202138.fOMkUmLaHt@linux1.krischik.com> <87zmqe855m.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: albireo.enyo.de 1127057427 20358 212.9.189.177 (18 Sep 2005 15:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:ynHVSiIgyIdcAbLQw+wQR1+0Me4= Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4862 Date: 2005-09-18T17:30:21+02:00 List-Id: * Samuel Tardieu: >>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Krischik writes: > > Martin> Well GPL does not mean "hobby only" - just give your customer > Martin> the sources and all is well. Where is the problem? > > Giving your customer the sources is not enough. You have to place them > under a GPL compatible licence[1]. Not *any* Free Software licence you > want. You don't even have to use a Free Software license if you don't distribute binaries and don't use the innards of the GNAT run-time library. The GPL isn't *that* viral. Whether compiling the application on-site is fine, I don't know.