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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a6975ef46c052458 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Runtime versions (GPL vs Modified GPL) Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <0b115c04-ead8-4cec-8867-94ca9632a5b9@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:19:39 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.64.12.102 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1210972779 12.64.12.102 (Fri, 16 May 2008 21:19:39 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:19:39 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:120 Date: 2008-05-16T21:19:39+00:00 List-Id: All programs that are compiled with GNU components are force to GPL 2 or 3. Explained in a number of web sites, such as Adacore. You must use GNAT that come with the GMGPL (GNAT modified GPL). These are limited to Ada 95 versions compiled and packaged back in the mid 1990s or use the pay version (GNAT PRO). Most archived versions have been updated to GPL 2 and GPL 3. Which mean that GNAT Ada 95 and at the movement all Ada 2005 compilers (GNAT only) are under GPL 2 or 3, which mean your code must be under GPL. To know for sure, read the 'license.txt' that comes with GNAT package. In <0b115c04-ead8-4cec-8867-94ca9632a5b9@w1g2000prd.googlegroups.com>, "jhc0033@gmail.com" writes: >If I install GNAT from Cygwin or my Linux distribution, as part of >GCC, is there any way to know for sure which version of the runtime >it's using? I wouldn't want to use the one that forces me to GPL my >own code.