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,e3c20f4bc2acc0ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!out01a.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!newspump.sol.net!news-out.cwix.com!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newsfeed.velia.net!news.tiscali.de!tiscali!newsfeed1.ip.tiscali.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-a.proxad.net!nnrp10-2.free.fr!not-for-mail From: Samuel Tardieu Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SPITBOL question (GNAT related) References: <9607825a-d085-4a0f-a4bb-54ffda8d54ec@d21g2000prf.googlegroups.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:54:40 +0100 Message-ID: <87ve7x169r.fsf@willow.rfc1149.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:piOO6byzZu+XY+3yxg8OUHf10M8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:6f8:37a:2::2 Organization: Guest of ProXad - France NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Nov 2007 12:55:01 MET NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.191.14.223 X-Trace: 1195559701 news-4.free.fr 30686 88.191.14.223:43343 X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18525 Date: 2007-11-20T12:55:01+01:00 List-Id: >>>>> "Bruce" == axtens 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 -- Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/