Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

David Trudgett wrote:
>     Does the libstdc++ exception permit dynamic linking?
> 
>         Yes. The intent of the exception is to allow people to compile
>         proprietary software using gcc.
> 
> [...] that would be a matter of library licensing, and
> not of GNAT's licence itself.

Exactly. Until now, the license of Gnat's implementation of the standard 
Ada library has had an exception just like libstdc++. Now this 
announcement appears to say that the new edition will only be useful for 
building GPL software, and that makes Jeffrey Carter and me wonder if 
perhaps that exception has been removed.

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