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Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial
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On 20 juin, 15:24, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
> you wish your program to use licensing terms incompatible with the
> GPL, you have three choices:
>
> - distribute your program in source form only, and require your
> =A0 licensees to build it for themselves. =A0Your sources need not be
> =A0 under GPL, since they are not linked to GtkAda.
>
> - contact AdaCore, the upstream author, at sa...@adacore.com, and
> =A0 purchase a GMGPL license for GtkAda.
>
> - do not distribute your program at all.
>

... or create your own Ada binding for GTK, step by step as needs
comes (otherwise it will be too much work), beceause the GTK license
is still LGPL unlike GtkAda (by the way, give another name to your own
Ada GTK binding as GtkAda is already in use)

http://www.gtk.org/ the first words on the home page says

> What is GTK+?
>
> GTK+ is a highly usable, feature rich toolkit for creating graphical user
> interfaces which boasts cross platform compatibility and an easy to use A=
PI.
> GTK+ it is written in C, but has bindings to many other popular programmi=
ng
> languages such as C++, Python and C# among others. GTK+ is licensed under
> the GNU LGPL 2.1 allowing development of both free and proprietary softwa=
re
> with GTK+ without any license fees or royalties.

(notice that Ada is not quoted)