From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Subject: Re: SPITBOL question (GNAT related)
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:54:40 +0100
Date: 2007-11-20T12:55:01+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve7x169r.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9607825a-d085-4a0f-a4bb-54ffda8d54ec@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com
>>>>> "Bruce" == axtens <Bruce.Axtens@gmail.com> writes:
Bruce> G'day everyone, I'm confused by some legalese in the headers
Bruce> for the SPITBOL routines, namely:
Bruce> -- As a special exception, ...
Bruce> What does this actually mean?
That you can use it in a proprietary package, you got it right.
Bruce> The idea is to take the code, make it UTF-16 aware, compile it
Bruce> to a DLL and then use that DLL in my employer's software.
As long as you start from a version of GNAT.Spitbol that has the
above-mentionned exception, this is ok.
Bruce> I'm quite happy, and my employer is also, to release the
Bruce> modified code back into the wild.
Excellent news :)
Sam
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