Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial applications

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@nospam.acm.org>]

Hibou57 (Yannick Duch�ne) wrote:
> 
> Is an application compiled and builded with the compiler a derived
> work ?

In the case of an Ada program, there are 2 consideration:

1. The Ada run-time. This has 2 parts:

   a. The Ada run-time is linked with your program: If the run-time is pure GPL, 
then every program compiled by the compiler is GPL.

   b. The Ada run-time is a shared library: If you don't distribute the library, 
then your program may not be GPL even if the library is pure GPL. If you do 
distribute the library, then your program is affected if the library is pure GPL.

2. Instantiating vendor-supplied generics, including generics defined in the 
standard. If these are pure GPL, then any program that instantiates any of them 
is GPL.

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Jeff Carter
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