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: a07f3367d7,c92999d3d36edb6c
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,CP1252
Path: 
 g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail
From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@nospam.acm.org>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: MinGW Ada compiler licence question targeting commercial
  applications
References: 
 <b437de36-b241-414e-9a4f-903eba06deb9@r33g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>
 	<4a3a1fd6$0$30224$9b4e6d93@newsspool1.arcor-online.net>
 <fbe4120a-5bbe-4f60-9367-f1ae1fefb6af@f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>
In-Reply-To: 
 <fbe4120a-5bbe-4f60-9367-f1ae1fefb6af@f16g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Message-ID: <LEv_l.150779$DP1.66259@attbi_s22>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 173.16.158.68
X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com
X-Trace: attbi_s22 1245349547 173.16.158.68 (Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:47 GMT)
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:47 GMT
Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:25:47 GMT
Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:6510
Date: 2009-06-18T18:25:47+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

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.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"Crucifixion's a doddle."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
82