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: 103376,5efeb51ce0b50b63 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050720) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GNAT GPL 2005 Edition References: <1126619435.487674.77550@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 00:00:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1126656039 217.209.116.179 (Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:00:39 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 02:00:39 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4641 Date: 2005-09-14T00:00:39+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu