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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,a5a6fdad0f42430 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GPL license version of GNAT GPL Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:04:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8ef34b37-58bc-43be-8a79-18a72b11ff8f@j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> References: <09f4d181-35f6-45e4-88ce-c234034f9e77@37g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.79.110.216 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1256853885 8452 127.0.0.1 (29 Oct 2009 22:04:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:04:45 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j24g2000yqa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.79.110.216; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8858 Date: 2009-10-29T15:04:45-07:00 List-Id: On 29 Pa=C5=BA, 18:22, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=C3=AAne) wrote: > I'm not a lawyer, but I guess if two licenses are not compatible with > each other, this is most probably due to terms and content than due to > version number. Well, these two version numbers differ in terms and content... > Can you quote the terms of both licenses which make your possibly > project unfeasible ? Please see the page that I linked in my previous post. > Also, except in special circumstances, GPL terms are very simple : you > must allow anyone to redistribute your work for free (most notably > meaning no practicable commercial works), modified or unmodified Well, these conditions are enforced by the requirement that the derived work is distributed with the same license. If you have two libraries (like GNAT runtime and my library) with different licenses, then obviously the whole program cannot have the same license as each of its dependants at the same time. Again, please refer to the FSF webpage. Interestingly, they don't consider it to be a problem... -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com Database Access Library for Ada: www.inspirel.com/soci-ada